Oculus Rift pre-order price after countdown

A countdown is now live on the official website, revealing that you can pre-order the Oculus Rift VR headset on Wednesday January 6, 2016. After years of development, our virtual reality experience, Oculus Rift, is now available for pre-order!When you put… He eventually launched a developer kit on crowdfunding site Kickstarter in 2012, where it swiftly became the most successful campaign of all time, raising close to $2.5 million. If so, Oculus is going to return the favor, and give you a free consumer grade Oculus Rift VR headset, the company announced today. And as a big all-caps THANK YOU to the early adopters who pledged support for a Rift development kit, Oculus will be providing a Kickstarter Edition Oculus Rift for free to those backers.

“VR will become something everyone wants before it becomes something everyone can afford”, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey wrote on Twitter just before Christmas. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Wednesday that the Rift “is the product of years of cutting edge research and engineering”.

The device will come as a bundle with video game Lucky’s Tale by Playful Corporation and the upcoming dogfighting shooter game EVE: Valkyrie by CCP, according to the blog.

The touch controller for the headset, which will let you do a lot of cool stuffs, is not shipping with the headset, however, you can choose to get notified once it’s up for pre-order. The setup of the Rift system includes a headset with detachable headphones, an external camera for tracking users’ head movement, an Xbox One wireless controller, and an input device which enables users to manipulate objects.