Oculus has partnered with Asus, Alienware, and Dell to provide a number of ‘Oculus Ready’ badged systems to VR fans looking to jump head first into the world high-end virtual reality gaming. The all-inclusive Rift/PC bundle will be available for pre-order in February at $1499.
Palmer Luckey, Oculus’ founder and inventor of the company’s iconic first VR headset, answered number of questions from the Reddit community in last night’s AMA (ask me anything), even admitting in a comprehensive question that his $350 ballpark figure on Rift pricing leading up to pre-orders ‘was handled poorly’.
Infinadeck, the active omnidirectional treadmill is back after it’s debut at SVVR Expo 2014. The latest prototype is on show at CES 2016 in a form that’s half the size, twice as quiet and now includes a harness to detect directional input. We took it for a spin.
With the price of the Oculus Rift headset coming in above the expectation of many, eyes turn to competitor HTC, whose Vive system has yet to be priced. The company isn’t ready to commit to a firm price for the headset but compared the purchase to an investment by the customer.
Like new consoles, new VR headsets are only as good as the games you can play on them. Playful’s Lucky’s Tale and CCP’s EVE: Valkyrie are coming for free to customers that pre-order the Oculus Rift, but the company says that they expect many more titles to come down the pipeline by the end of 2016—also including Minecraft.
Oculus released a bevy of teaser photos in today’s rush to pre-order the new Rift, the company’s first consumer grade tethered VR headset. Among them was the DK1-style carrying case containing all the goodies set to come along with it. And it’s set to be totally “doper than ever.”
The Oculus Rift pre-order bundle is selling for €699 in select EU countries, or just about $750—a hefty $150 more than the US price of $599. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey shot off a round of tweets this morning defending the inflated price.
Oculus Rift pre-orders are now live, and it seems that the previously leaked Oculus Remote has returned and will be included in the Oculus Rift pre-order bundle.
The hotly anticipated Oculus Rift VR headset is now available for pre-order for $599. The device is expected to ship March 2016.
Oculus have today started taking pre-orders for the Oculus Rift, the long-awaited virtual reality headset poised to be the first consumer grade headset of its kind to make it into the hands of virtual reality fans.
Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 820 chipset is set to power flagship phones throughout 2016 and the company is touting the ‘system-on-a-chip’ as being optimized for virtual reality. The well recognized VR broadcast company, NextVR, has high praise for what the chipset is able to achieve, calling it competitive even against the bar-setting Gear VR.
While the original HTC Vive development kit has impressed many with its ‘room-scale’ VR capability, the unit was a full step behind its competitors in the ergonomics department. The Vive Pre, the second development kit of the VR headset, looks to have taken a significant stab at bringing ergonomics up to par.
At CES yesterday I had the chance to take a look at the new ‘affordable’ 360 camera called Vuze. The camera shoots at resolutions up to 4k per combined, sporting 8 x 1080p cameras capturing footage at up to 30FPS – all in a package supposedly costing less than $1000.
Oculus Rift pre-orders open tomorrow (Wednesday January 6th) at 8AM PT. Founder Palmer Luckey this evening is providing a few last minute details, including the fact that pre-ordering the Rift will reserve your spot in line to pre-order the company’s Touch VR controller later this year.
Virtuix are back at CES once again, and this time they’re getting all competitive as they prepare to hold they’re first multiplayer VR eSports tournament using the Omni VR treadmill, in their new made-for-Omni title, Omni Arena.
