Oculus Rift £500/$600

[Eraser]

Oculus has officially announced the price for a Rift: 500 UK pound or 600 us dollar. That likely means 600 euro's.
Fuck that. It's way too expensive. Frustratingly, Palmer Luckey spoke of targeting a $200 to $400 price range before.

[Eraser]

[Deathshroud]

I'm tempted, but damn that's expensive!

[Deathshroud]

I'm guessing manufacturing costs more than they projected, or they were blowing smoke up people's asses for attention.

[seremtan]

blowing smoke up people's asses used to be how you revived them if they nearly drowned

it would certainly get their attention though

[Tsakali]

The steam ones will be better, and Prolly better price. They will have to adjust or get out out of business.

[Don Carlos]

Fuck. That.

[PhoeniX]

£500? More like $600/£600. Exchange rates appear to not apply to tech stuff.

[Κracus]

Yeah I'll wait. Probably won't be long before they start going up on ebay cause people have motion sickness.

[xer0s]

Plus it's 1st Gen. Never buy 1st Gen...

[Eraser]

Plus it's 1st Gen. Never buy 1st Gen...

With DK1 and DK2 being available as long as they have been, you can hardly call this 1st gen. At least not in the sense that it's untested (out in the wild) tech.

[Whiskey 7]

I'm tempted, but damn that's expensive!

Me too... wait..

Gadgets
CONFIRMED: The Oculus Rift Will Cost Australians Over $1100 [Updated]

Today 4:45 AM

Source

[scared?]

Lol Australians...

[Captain]

A couple ugly nerds at work were drooling all over the fact that they spent almost $1000 on pre-ordering one, fucking morons

[Transient]

http://kotaku.com/whoops-i-found-this-q ... 1751441651

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From a 2013 interview.

[U4EA]

Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and designer of the Rift, is doing an AMA on Reddit. He responds directly about the pricing issue here.

Full thread.

[Ryoki]

Jesus that's a lot of money.

[Eraser]

Gadgets
CONFIRMED: The Oculus Rift Will Cost Australians Over $1100 [Updated]

Today 4:45 AM

Source

That's AUS dollar, not US dollar

[xer0s]

Is it really that much money? Same price as a new smart phone...

[feedback]

Jesus that's a lot of money.

Same price as the average flagship smartphone which people seem to buy every year or so. It might not be worth buying now, but very few first gen tech is. Maybe in a couple years.

[shaft]

This isn't some standalone device. It's a $600 peripheral. You still need a $1000 PC to run it. Intel i5-4590, 970 GTX minimum.

[Ryoki]

That's what i'm saying (actually i wasn't, but that's what i meant - thanks mr shaft).

Not all of us operate a succesful waste disposal business from our backyards you know.

[ToxicBug]

This isn't some standalone device. It's a $600 peripheral. You still need a $1000 PC to run it. Intel i5-4590, 970 GTX minimum.

Being an early adopter is an expensive hobby.

[Captain]

Here's to all the miserable beta-testers

[Transient]

Is it really that much money? Same price as a new smart phone...

Considering it's kind of a smart phone strapped to your face, is it all that surprising?