Leaked Sony VR headset price is more than two PS4s

Sony also had an augmented reality headset, called SmartEyeglass, on display.

If you’ve already pre-ordered a Rift headset, you’ll get $200 voucher in February to put towards an X51 or XPS 8900 should you need something more beefy to power it. The device gives users the ability to impart virtual reality even from their personal media stored on their respective phones like watching videos for a far more engaging experience.

The specs of the Alienware system were not announced, but Azor said the bundle would be a complete turn-key solution-so you could pull the X51 out of the box and begin playing VR with minimal effort. Reports estimate that Sony’s VR headset will cost between $400 and $600, which is fair enough compared to the Rift’s price tag.

In the wake of yesterday’s pricing announcement for the Oculus Rift, one would think Sony would be ready to step up and talk about their upcoming PlayStation VR. Luckey said that while a higher performance GPU doesn’t hurt, he didn’t believe it was a necessity.

The technology used in the Oculus Rift is top notch, it is expensive.

The creators of the Oculus Rift are also saying that around 100 games will arrive for the platform before the end of the year, again with no attached list.

Facebook-owned Oculus began taking pre-orders for its eagerly-anticipated Rift VR headsets at a price of $599 when the CES show floor opened on Wednesday.

“Virtual reality is a big deal here”, Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at CES. Many people feel it’s unfair to ask them to pay more for a peripheral than they would pay for a full-fledged machine, and nobody can really blame them for having these sorts of reservations.

People wearing the glasses see information float in front of them, and can interact with it using gestures, head motion or voice commands, according to Ketan Joshi of Atheer. The Oculus Rift was announced to cost a whopping $600 in its first wave – a price that’s upset more than a few people.

Dell is in fact one of three partners that Oculus has teamed up with to make the Rift a little easier to buy.