Oculus Rift Price Might Be On The Expensive Side

Oculus added that manufacturing for the Rift is going well and the product is still slated for release on the first quarter of next year.

Oculus Rift founder, Palmer Luckey, has hinted that the price of the device may not be on the low side.

Despite the fact that few headsets are yet on the market, the Consumer Electronics Association forecasts sales of 1.2 million in 2016.

The VR headset will be available for preorder soon, as the company said you will be able to put your order in sometime in early 2016.

The Oculus Rift was first shown off not by its inventor, a then-teenage Palmer Luckey, but by games programming mastermind John Carmack, who had expressed interest in an advanced prototype and promptly set it up at his Electronic Entertainment Expo booth mid-2012. “It’s not the limitless canvas that you have on a PC, where basically anything the developer can come up with they can make. The cost of development hardware that was sold at a loss using many off-the-shelf components is not a good comparison.It is no coincidence that Oculus will lead this reality check the same way we led this VR revolution – 1st to market is hard”.

Though much of the virtual-reality action in 2016 is expected to focus on the living room, a startup in suburban Utah is bringing it into a much larger space by opening a virtual-reality entertainment center called the Void later in the year. However, on the downside, the upcoming VR headset will be compatible only to the newer Samsung phones, namely, Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy Note 5, and Galaxy S6 Edge+, therefore posing certain limitations.

Meanwhile, HTC says its Vive headset won’t see daylight until April, which should give Oculus a healthy head start. It’s possible it could even be more expensive.

Virtual reality isn’t all about computer-generated graphics; a number of companies are making live-action content, too. If you will afford them. More companies are expected to provide this feature as well.

Nvidia’s GameWorks VR is going to make rendering a lot more efficient…so you don’t catch the herk and jerk.

Last month, the New York Times sent more than a million Google Cardboard virtual-reality kits to its subscribers to promote its virtual-reality documentary The Displaced, which details what happens to children displaced by war.