Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
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Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#2So... when does it ship?
Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#3So... when does it ship?
and what will it cost?
Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#4So... when does it ship?
and what will it cost?
It looks like it hasn't been announced yet:
[ While Facebook and Oculus VR aren't quite ready to reveal a price of the Rift, Luckey suggested that it'll cost more than the $350 developer's kit.
"You know, I'm going to be perfectly honest with you," Luckey said in an interview back in September. "We're roughly in that ballpark... but it's going to cost more than that. And the reason for that is that we've added a lot of technology to this thing beyond what existed in the DK1 and DK2 days."
While $350 may be too low, $1,000 seems to be too high. Elaborating on the Rift's pricing on Twitter recently, Luckey stated that Oculus VR has the backing of Facebook and doesn't need an immediate hardware profit.
"A company that has to survive on immediate hardware profit would have to hit with a much higher price - think $1000+. Not greed, reality," he tweeted. "1st gen VR users are being heavily subsidized by major players who want VR business to grow, though few seem to understand that." ]
Source of Above: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/120994/20160103/oculus-rif...
Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#5A pre-pre order holding page. Before this webpage I guess we were in a pre-pre-pre order state?
Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#6I just get the feeling VR technology simply will not work because the resolution isn't high enough, and even the most top-end monster PCs cannot handle standard resolution VR, let alone 4K or even 8K in the future.
Graphics cards really need a huge performance jump to make VR work, and given both Nvidia and AMD seem to be happy releasing a new set each year with only modest 20-30% performance gains then what does this mean for VR?
Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#7Now the real question- go with Facebook and buy an Oculus Rift or go with Valve/HTC and buy a Vive?
The Vive has more features (like head tracking) but maybe it will be more expensive? There's been nothing but silence in terms of pricing of either of them... I do have a hard time justifying $500+ for a screen I'll strap to my head that will probably be obsolete in a year or two.
I will say though, I recently bought a Steam Link and a Steam Controller and I am pretty impressed with the quality of Valve's hardware.
Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#8Anyone know if the rift would work on the newest high end model iMacs with the AMD M390? Obviously still have to run it via Windows I assume but just wondering if it would even work on them.
Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#9Anyone know if the rift would work on the newest high end model iMacs with the AMD M390? Obviously still have to run it via Windows I assume but just wondering if it would even work on them.
Your GPU has an "M" in it. I don't have hard evidence, but my experience says it won't work.
Re: Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6
#10All hail the Lawnmower Man! This is going to be the biggest flop in the history of history due to being sent back to the 90's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCxFGxqLsHE
Go Mondo2000!