10 Things You Need To Know About Oculus Rift
The most revolutionary tech of our time, but do you know enough to put down $600?
In case you're still struggling to catch up with all the ongoing VR buzz, company Oculus released pre-orders for its Rift VR headset on January 6th, and everyone went a bit crazy. The Facebook-owned company said it would begin shipping the product on March 28th to original Kickstarter backers with a price set at $599. But the price has divided the public and the press, leaving Oculus' creator Palmer Luckey to defend it in an open Reddit post. Luckey said the goal for Rift is to be an "affordable and disruptive piece of VR technology that would put VR into the hands of a lot of people". But ringing in at just under $600, he notes, "The goal never changed, but the timeline of achieving that goal did," inferring that the Rift's price may come down in time or that more inexpensive models could be in the future pipeline. He claims it's worth the ask overall, saying "the Rift is the first headset capable of delivering presence, the sensation of feeling like you are inside a virtual scene on a subconscious level". Before you go rushing to the Oculus website to buy the Rift though, there are a few things you might want to mark off your checklist, as there's a ton of things to consider before investing in such a remarkable piece of kit.