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Oculus Rift pre-orders to open on January 6 8am pacific time
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Skulduggery
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Duh, obviously. I've just got Vive on the brain -_-
Obliterator
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Of course it will go up for preorder now. Worst time for me financially. 2 weeks from now would have been great
CES starts on the 6th though there are a lot of things that'll be announced ahead of the show floor opening, so I'm expecting some news tomorrow.
CraigerGamer
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Seems this is what we will be buying once we know how much we will be buying it for...
EDIT: Touch controls not out until 2nd half of 2016 according to Gaf In The Know.
EDIT: Touch controls not out until 2nd half of 2016 according to Gaf In The Know.
UpDownLeftRight
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The fact this is going up for pre-order in a couple days and we still have no idea what the price is kinda makes me think we're pretty much looking at a four digit number at this point. It's as if they're actually afraid to announce the cost. I was planning on buying one originally but because they're so damn determined to hold back that vital data I couldn't save up towards one or even know how long it would take me to save up.
Seems this is what we will be buying once we know how much we will be buying it for...
They have already said the Oculus Touch controllers won't be coming until the second half of 2016.
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/update-on-oculus-touch-ship-date/
Neither the the Rift or the Vive will be $1000+ for the headset and controllers. All we know for the Rift is that it'll be more than $350 and with one of the VR ready PCs that Oculus is supporting, it would come in at around $1500 for the full setup. I fully expect the Rift to come in at the $449 to $499 range.
I still think the Vive because of the inclusion of the Lighthouses and wands, as well as coming from HTC who continues to struggle and can't as easily afford to sell the devices at cost, will be in the $700 to $800 range.
I don't think it will be four digits, but I am fully expecting high three digits. My guess is $799.
Dreamwriter
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Seems this is what we will be buying once we know how much we will be buying it for...
Not quite - the Oculus Touch isn't coming out until later this year (second half of 2016). The Touch uses the second camera.
JeffG
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ummmmmm..pre-order it in 2 weeks?
Stupid Sexy Flanders
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Now to wait for the price and date to be announced and see if I can afford one, as well as upgrading my PC in time 
CraigerGamer
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oh. Twitter lied to me.
I agree with this. Probably why they are holding it so close to pre-order. Once they announce it Sony will most likely announce PSVR at CES at a hundred dollars less then Oculus.
Frustrated_Grunt
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Only got a 7870ghz, guess I'm out for now.
Skulduggery
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Seems this is what we will be buying once we know how much we will be buying it for...
Oculus Touch isn't releasing until later in the year, but are they planning on having a pre-order bundle with a touch included?
My guess on how it went down:
MZ: Kinda pricey for plebs no?
LP: Naw, early adopters are financial morons. I bet we could sell out the first shipment without even telling them price.
MZ: What do you want to wager?
I have not had the chance to try VR yet but this is so tempting. I will probably wait though because I can't see myself buying a Rift, Vive, and PSVR and want to wait on real Rift vs Vive comparisons. Leaning towards waiting and getting part of the Rift or Vive paid for as a birthday gift at the end of July
darkinstinct
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You will likely have to pay a part of the sum or all of it upfront.
Amazon UK has a dedicated VR space right now so it SHOULD stock them. Oculus would be suicidally stupid not to stock their product on Amazon.
It really does. I wonder if it would be possible for them to incorporate a heart rate sensor into the palm area of the Touch so it becomes a potential method for monitoring players.
I think the Touch/Vive with the Infinadeck is going to be amazing.
PrimaNocta
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Don't have a good enough rig to use the Rift so I'll probably just wait till the end of the year. Now Sony's VR device will get purchased day 1.
I can understand pre-orders with the limited quantity developer kits, but... I don't really see why pre-orders are needed for the final "off the shelf" consumer hardware.
I mean surely they will be mass producing enough for everyone... so that we don't have the ridiculously long wait times we had with DK1 and DK2 etc?
I mean surely they will be mass producing enough for everyone... so that we don't have the ridiculously long wait times we had with DK1 and DK2 etc?
at launch with limited availability? why would they do that?
Huw_Dawson
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$400 to GBP plus VAT... £326.
If it comes to £350, I can take the bit. I'll need to upgrade my CPU to the best Haswell i5 but other than that I am gold.
Anything over that and I wait for games I want to play. I don't have time to develop my own software for it.
If it comes to £350, I can take the bit. I'll need to upgrade my CPU to the best Haswell i5 but other than that I am gold.
Anything over that and I wait for games I want to play. I don't have time to develop my own software for it.
Palmer Luckey on no price:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3zfa1f/oculus_rift_preorders_to_open_on_january_6/cylomk8
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3zfa1f/oculus_rift_preorders_to_open_on_january_6/cylomk8
They won't, yeah, that's what I was saying. The last thing the Oculus Rift needs is limited availability.
habithipster
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I think they backed away from that unfortunately. Still hope we will learn how much it will cost for the full package though, I view tracked controllers as an integral part of the experience.
You still have to deal with supply v demand. IDK how aggressive FB is with their hardware ramp up, but I doubt there will be easily available stock until 6-8 months after launch.
fierrotlepou
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Really thinking about pre-ordering to show my support for VR. I just hope that there'll be more than enough apps developed for it. We haven't seen a lot of apps developed, although there's been a DK1 and a DK2. Am I mistaken? Or are developers just waiting for the consumer version to come out before talking about their games and apps?
Dreamwriter
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I've been saving money for the Rift, I'll finally be able to spend it come Wednesday. I hope new video cards come out soon, though - my GTX 780ti has been hitting framerate issues in Elite Dangerous unless I set the quality to low, and that's at 1080p at 75hz, while the consumer Rift will be 1200x1080x2 at 90hz
The price will be announced alongside pre-orders on Wednesday. You will know the price when it's time to make a decision.
ThisIsMyName
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I'm guessing an MSRP of $599.
The Omega Man
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1000 Canadian monopoly money.
Now we know he's delusional. Completely different situation, unless they're delaying the release until 2018.
Yes, but also under the time stressor of "If I want this I need to make a choice right now or it will sell out." They know what they're doing, and its a crappy thing to do.
Octavianus
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I wonder why companies don't do this. They're just giving the excess to scalpers otherwise.
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