Oculus Rift Now Available for Pre-Order for the Price of…$599

While gamers will likely dominate the early-adopter market for the Oculus Rift, VR also “holds incredible promise for enterprise applications”, Gownder said. He promised more than 100 “virtual reality games and other experiences are coming this year”.

A ship date and the price for Oculus Rift has been revealed. Oculus says they’ll be announcing more titles soon. Oculus reported that those that preorder Rift will “secure a place in line” for Touch controller preorders later this year.

Like new consoles, new VR headsets are only as good as the games you can play on them. Are you going to pre-order one? “The biggest portion of their cost is the PC, not the Rift itself”.

Access to EVE: Valkyrie will be bundled with all pre-orders of Oculus Rift, so take out that mortgage now if you fancy taking control of your very own space vehicle. In regards to the price, supporters have claimed that the $600 is no different than the $700 people spend on iPhones.

Virtual reality is finally here, 2016.

Virtual reality headset shipments will grow from headset shipments will grow from more than 3 million this year to 30 million globally by 2020, according to Juniper Research.

Owners of the Oculus Rift DK2 headset will be able to register their interest in the testing program here.

The Rift headset will include built-in headphones and mic and come packaged with a sensor and an Xbox One controller. “When we shop online, we’re using abstractions (menus and hierarchies) that are very different from actually walking down the aisle of a store”.