CES 2016: Here’s What’s Inside the Oculus Rift Box

Right now, game developers are the ones with the technology and the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3-D worlds.

Although the ask of consumers becomes even bigger when you consider a £750-£1000 PC is also required, bringing the total up to in the region of £1,500.

Luckey: It really boils down to getting the quality we needed for our consumer VR product.

For Iribe, the next steps are clear: Find more applications for the Rift to make it a more compelling device.

“We made it as close to the cost of the hardware as possible”, Iribe said. According to the Oculus Rift store page, it will now be June before any new orders are fully processed, months removed from the first wave landing in March.

To get your Rift headset up and running, you need a PC and the one capable of supporting Rift costs about $1,000. As an explanation, not an excuse: during that time, many outlets were repeating the “Rift is $1500!” line, and I was frustrated by how many people thought that was the price of the headset itself. A PC to run it is roughly a thousand dollars. He apologized that the initial price of the Oculus Rift stated past year caused some confusion to prospective buyers. “$599 is not in the ballpark of $350 when your target audience is the mainstream”.

IBT: What games can these early adopters and gamers expect? Moreover, gaming vouchers for Lucky’s Tale and EVE: Valkyrie are supplied with each Oculus unit, and you can begin to play as soon as you receive the device. So we will only have to wait and see what Sony has for PlayStation VR in the future.

Apparently, whether it is the PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, they all undergo strenuous development and testing that literally rips funds from its financers.

Luckey: That might be true.

KitGuru Says: While the Oculus Rift is going to be an expensive buy and reserved for high-end PC owners, the PlayStationVR has a unique opportunity to cater to even more people due to the high number of PS4 sales and potential for a lower price point. Also, the fact that the Oculus Rift is among the first real players in the VR scene means that the main goal is not to sell, but for the market to embrace it and make an entirely new industry out of it.