Oculus Rift price and release date revealed: Virtual reality headset pre

Luckey also used the AMA to explain the cost of virtual reality. That’s good news for those who may end up inclined to instead seek the headset at retailers, a select number of which will have the Rift available “in limited locations” starting in April.

The Oculus Rift is a head-mounted virtual reality display that allows users to experience virtual reality through programs and games developed for the Rift.

However, the price tag of $600 is rather steep, especially if you throw in the fact that you need to have a decent Windows PC to use the Oculus Rift to begin with.

There’s no shortage of VR products available to buy, but the daddy of them all is unquestionably Oculus Rift.

The Rift headset will include built-in headphones and mic and come packaged with a sensor and an Xbox One controller.

Facebook acquired Oculus for $2 billion in 2014.

Speaking during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, Luckey responded to a question on the number of games that will launch for the Rift this year. Oculus is also offering a PC bundle which include some sort of gaming PC and Oculus Rift for U.S. $1,499 and that one will go on pre-order in February. Bundled with the headset are two virtual reality optimised titles: platformer Lucky’s Tale and dog-fighting shooter EVE: Valkyrie.

Oculus Rift is an expensive piece of hardware but comes with a premium package, as you can see from the photos below shared by attendants at CES 2016 in Las Vegas.

There are already dozens of games available to play on the Oculus Rift development kits, but it’s unclear how many of those games will work with the Oculus Rift CV1 (the first “consumer version”).