This is how much the Oculus Rift will cost you

Well not anymore! Buying an Oculus Rift headset will cost you a cool $599, according to the preorder website, and the devices are set to ship in March of this year. The Rift will initially be shipped from March 28 to 20 countries, including Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK and the United States, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Supporters who pledged enough money for the development edition of the Rift will receive a free headset.

The developers behind VR game EVE: Valkyrie will open their consumer testing programme later this month. Oculus is bundling a copy of Lucky’s Tale, a VR platformer, with every Rift.

For years now, we’ve been hearing that virtual reality is the trippy, three-dimensional future of entertainment, but so far all the talk has been purely theoretical. “People ask about Touch+Rift discount – Everyone with Touch needs a Rift, consider discount built into price of the subsidized Rift hardware”. The only confusion is with the Touch Controllers, which the founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey stated would be available along with VR headset.

This includes an Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater processor requirement, NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater graphics card and at least 8GB of RAM.

Pre-ordering the Rift doesn’t mean you’ll be charged the moment you place your order and placing an order won’t lock you into a purchase.

Oculus has already said that the headset will start shipping by second quarter of 2016, till then, the users will have to do with the Xbox One controller shipping with Oculus Rift.