Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order • Hacker News Board

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by Lan » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

interdrift wrote: post #6

bowmessage wrote: post #2

Going to have to pass on $599. More than I was expecting.

I can't access the page, is this the official price? Was expecting something around the 400$-450$ range. This costs as much as a full blown PC.

$599.00 is the official price before tax and shipping.

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by yeukhon » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

Why is Xbox One Controller included? Not PS4 compatible? But hey you'd now think "why didn't I back Oculus on Kickstarter?"

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by kolbe » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

I thought Samsung has been doing a pretty decent job of integrating VR into their smartphones. Will there be a substantial improvement to the VR experiences using Oculus?

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by herbst » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #23

herbst wrote: post #13

Subtotal: $59900 O_O

Font issue? There's a dot in there - $599.00.

Most likely, but it was like this on both places.

Oh well, maybe they forgot to look at it on retina.

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by jhspaybar » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

kross wrote: post #14

kross wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

app-bundle-3.15.14.js:50 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'hostname' of undefined Some great QA went into this release.

Site's up, now declining credit cards? I guess I'll have to paypal it...smooth!

This happened to me, the issue was that I entered my expiration date as MM/YY rather than MM/YYYY. Give it a shot if that's happening to you.

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by tetraodonpuffer » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

interdrift wrote: post #6

bowmessage wrote: post #2

Going to have to pass on $599. More than I was expecting.

I can't access the page, is this the official price? Was expecting something around the 400$-450$ range. This costs as much as a full blown PC.

a 599 PC is not going to have a GPU strong enough to give you any decent VR, 599 is about the starting point for the GPU only, I would honestly not go with anything less than a 980ti for a minimum of future-proofing, and unless you already have one I would wait for a Pascal card, which in any case will cost at least that much.

in VR dropping frames / latency directly maps to motion sickness, so it's not a case of "eh, I can deal with the framerate not being super solid" like it can be on normal gaming.

This costs less than some flagship cellphones, 599 is definitely not that much all things considered.

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by melling » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

"Too much money" ... "It's all hype". Can we take the whiny asshole shit to Reddit? It's ok if you're not interested. Check back in 5 years. Everyone doesn't need to be an early adopter.

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by tluyben2 » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:12 PM UTC

lossolo wrote: post #9

Stop with "Virtual Reality" hype. People feel dizzy after trying this out. You will see how this hype will decline after the product launch. We see hype because big companies bet on this product and now want to get their millions back...

I have the dev kit from the first Kickstarter (and will get this one apparently for free because of it); never felt dizzy at all nor anything else negative besides getting sweaty in my face after a while of playing. It might be a hype and it might decline but not because 'people feel dizzy' in general.

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by strictnein » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:12 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #24

Sven7 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are a pro athlete it allows you to practice your swing or your serve.

If you're a pro athlete you're going to use the real thing.

No, you're going to do both. Football players already spend tons of time watching film. This is an extension of that.

Re: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

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Post by FilterSweep » Wed, Jan 06, 2016, 4:12 PM UTC

Sven7 wrote: post #17

wehadfun wrote: post #7

Besides gaming and AE is there any reason to get this?

If you are a pro athlete it allows you to practice your swing or your serve.

True, but pro athletes have already had other proprietary technology for the past year. Oculus might not even be the best solution currently for athletic performance. A cool read on Stanford Football's use of Virtual Reality in practice settings [0]

[0]: http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers/ci_28784441/virtual-reality...