Anyone who has already pre-ordered an Oculus Rift will also be provided with a $200 (approx £136) voucher to buy an X51 or Dell XPS 8900 PC if they want to purchase one that’s definitely capable of running the Oculus Rift.
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Although the £499 Oculus Rift launch price might have flabbergasted some, if you’re looking to make the VR upgrade there’s another option.
No worldwide currency amounts have yet been announced by Oculus for the “Oculus Ready” PC bundle.
It was highly expected that the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset would cost about $350 when its price and release date was announced.
Palmer Luckey’s original estimate of a PC and Oculus Rift bundle costing $1500 wasn’t too far off the mark.
The Dell Alienware X51 Is now available to preorder with prices starting from $1200 and offers and Intel Core i5-6400 (6MB Cache, up to 3.3GHz with Turbo Boost Technology) Includes Hyper-Threading running Windows 10 Home 64bit English with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with 4GB GDDR5 VR-Ready graphics card, supported by 8GB Dual Channel DDR4 at 2133MHz and 1TB of storage.
“NVIDIA’s unique set of features-such as multi-res shading-mean you get the right level of performance, image quality, and latency to ensure your VR experience is nothing short of fantastic”. Dell will then ship the Rift headset in March alongside the first pre-orders for the device.
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If you don’t think £500 is a fair price for the Oculus Rift, it turns out you’re going to be able to get your hands on it for less money. PCs built to meet the specifications that handle virtual reality equipment will go up and the companies such as Dell and Asus, the only approved PC makers now to house the VR ready branding, are to benefit from it. Head over to Alienware to pre-order your Oculus-Ready X51 R3.
