Facebook Opens Up Oculus Rift Pre-Orders

Not only will they receive the Oculus itself, but the bundled games promised to pre-orders (Lucky’s Tale and EVE: Valkyrie) will be included with it. The Oculus Rift Touch controllers were previously delayed to the second half of 2016.

The Facebook-owned company has opened pre-orders for the headset, which will cost £499. Earlier this week Oculus announced that the Rift would be available for pre-order – that day has come folks, the Rift is up for grabs! But it’s not just the headset you’ll need to run virtual environments and games; a powerful computer is recommended to smoothly animate your virtual worlds.

This was all explained last night by Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey on Twitter, where he said: “Good news, everyone: When you preorder Rift, you also reserve your spot for Touch preorders”. But it still hasn’t revealed how much it will cost to get in on the first round of consumer VR. HTC’s Vive headset is now expected to hit markets in April this year and Sony, too, plans to release its PlayStation VR that will be used with the PS4 gaming console.

Loyal Oculus Rift supporters, who have supported the virtual reality device since it first appeared in a Kickstarter campaign back in 2012, will be rewarded.

The Rift will ship with a remote control, a sensor and an XBox One controller.

To get your free Rift, you have to fill out a survey you’ll get from Kickstarter before February 1.

In September 2015, Oculus and Samsung Electronics unveiled a new version of Gear VR virtual reality headset for $99.