Oculus Rift Release Date Revealed

If any of you want to find out if you do have a Rift-compatible PC lying around, Oculus has a compatibility tool you can use via this link (light warning: clicking on it will make the tool begin to automatically download). The likes of Russian Federation and South Korea are also still waiting on news as to when the Oculus Rift will hit their countries.

Judging how quickly the first batch sold out, Oculus Rift is doing quite well despite its high price tag and the fact that it is the first available virtual reality headset.

Oculus has also revealed that they are selling the Rift at a loss in order to entice people to the platform.

The general pre-order for the Rift will come with a carrying case and a copy of the games Lucky’s Tale and EVE: Valkyrie. It means that customers not only pay for the device, but also have to spend money on the computer to run the system.

The Oculus Remote features a trackpad and a few buttons to help you navigate VR experiences and 360 videos, browse the Oculus store and play games. The price gets you the Rift headgear, headset with built in microphone, input devices and an Xbox One controller. “It’s called Gear VR”, he said, referring to the mobile VR headset that Oculus launched together with Samsung late past year.

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.

A developer version of the HoloLens – priced at $3,000 – is expected to become available in the first quarter of this year, according to Microsoft.

In a report on VR and AR (augmented reality) released in July, Gownder said that such technologies are “finally ready for prime time”.