If you’ve been following the Oculus Rift story closely as we have, you’ll know that it’s an entirely different beast than it once was. Originally Palmer Luckey, the creator of the Rift, expected to sell a limited quantity of DIY self-assembly kits to members of the MTBS3D forums. He intended to hand-build, package, and ship them himself. Indeed he took a number of these pre-Kickstarter orders, but then things blew up when John Carmack showed off the Oculus Rift at E3 2012.

With interest skyrocketing, Palmer realized Kickstarter would be a more sensible option and that he’d have to move to mass-production. To appease the early adopters who wanted to get a DIY s kit, the Kickstarter had a special DIY kit reward tier for $275. This was limited to 100 orders and was sold out just hours after the Kickstarter went live.  However, now that mass-production is happening, it’s been unclear exactly what the pre-Kickstarter and limited 100 DIY kit orders would turn out to be. We now have some info concerning the fate of these two legacy orders.