Oculus Rift to Ship to Customers in March for $599

The Rift is a gaming system that allows users to feel like they are in the game they are playing.

6,955 people paid enough to receive this edition of the Oculus in this gracious move by the developers.

Oculus will begin taking pre-orders for the consumer version of the Rift virtual reality headset on Wednesday, January 6 at 8 a.m. PT, it said today.

A ship date and the price for Oculus Rift has been revealed.

While there have been many experiments with Virtual Reality, Oculus Rift is all set to take it to a whole new direction. For the enthusiasts, these include titles like EVE: Valkyrie, a spaceflight and space combat simulator. Oculus chief executive Brendan Iribe said in May that the Rift and the computer needed to run it were expected to cost around $1,500. The listing now says that the “expected ship date” is April 2016.

If you’ve been holding out for a production-ready consumer VR headset, it’s time to get excited because the Oculus Rift is on its way. And with VR headsets from HTC and Valve, Oculus, and Sony all hitting the market it shouldn’t be too long now before we get a reboot of 1992’s The Lawnmower Man.

The Oculus Rift will come with an Xbox One controller, and most of its launch games are what Oculus calls “seated experiences”. While plenty of people have had an Oculus Rift already, those were all iterations of the development kit intended for people interested in creating virtual reality experiences.

It follows news that a motion controller for the Rift, called Touch, would be delayed until the second quarter of 2016.