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First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016

Gypsy816
Expert Protege
Since the earliest days of the Oculus Kickstarter, the Rift has been shaped by gamers, backers, developers, and enthusiasts around the world. Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce that the Oculus Rift will be shipping to consumers in Q1 2016, with pre-orders later this year.

The Rift delivers on the dream of consumer VR with compelling content, a full ecosystem, and a fully-integrated hardware/software tech stack designed specifically for virtual reality. It’s a system designed by a team of extremely passionate gamers, developers, and engineers to reimagine what gaming can be.


A first look at what the world can expect in Q1 2016

The Oculus Rift builds on the presence, immersion, and comfort of the Crescent Bay prototype with an improved tracking system that supports both seated and standing experiences, as well as a highly refined industrial design, and updated ergonomics for a more natural fit.


A peek inside the Oculus Rift

In the weeks ahead, we’ll be revealing the details around hardware, software, input, and many of our unannounced made-for-VR games and experiences coming to the Rift. Next week, we’ll share more of the technical specifications here on the Oculus blog.

Virtual reality is going to transform gaming, film, entertainment, communication, and much more. If you’re interested in building a next-generation VR game or application, everything you need to start developing for the Rift is available at the Oculus Developer Center.

E3 is just around the corner — this is only the beginning.

– The Oculus Team
Oculus Community Manager - kweh!
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itypo
Honored Guest
"cybereality" wrote:
Any tech you buy will be obsolete in a few years. If that is your logic, then never buy anything.


Amen. Apple and Samsung release a new high end phone every year, nvidia and amd do the same for graphics cards, Intel releases many processors each year.

No reason to aasume this won't be the case for VR. I expect a new headset every 1,5-2 years in the beginning, it might speed up later on.

Ancienttanuki
Honored Guest
Scouting the Forums every day. 😉

I hope i dont need to waist more of my free time.

NegativeCamber
Honored Guest
I'm a little bit more relaxed on getting on the pre order list for the CV1 than for the DKs. The production ramp up will be a lot larger I would imagine.

OculusFanBoy
Honored Guest
Just found this on the Playseat website...... $398.73

http://www.playseatstore.com/oculus-rift-virtual-reality-headset.html

itypo
Honored Guest
Idiots, trust me when you order there for 398 and the price comes out to be 450, they won't ship it to you without paying the extra cost, they are just trying to bind you to them.

cdmoore74
Protege
"cybereality" wrote:
Any tech you buy will be obsolete in a few years. If that is your logic, then never buy anything.


The young-timers should consider themselves lucky. Back in the early 90's I was upgrading my cpu and motherboard every year, memory at one time cost me $400 for 4MB (not gigabytes) and a 800x600 15" CRT monitor was $300. Going online was slow and expensive.
And fast forward today I could have still rocked my 4 year old i5-2500k for the majority of games but decided that it was time to jump on a sky lake i7-6700k just for Oculus Rift. We now live in a time that does not require us to upgrade like crazy. But Oculus may change that with at least video cards.

Hicks613
Heroic Explorer
"Lleajy" wrote:
Hi,


I've the following config :

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
GPU: GTX 780 (3Go DDR5)

Do you think I can run the CV1 rift smoothly ?

I think the recent card 9xx are overrated compared to the 780...


I wouldn't bother going with the 900 series cards.

It is late enough in the game to wait for the next gen nVidia (pascal) gpu's.

However, if you're on a budget. You will be able to get a decently priced 980 or 980ti once pascal is on the shelves.

numpulse
Honored Guest
"cdmoore74" wrote:
"cybereality" wrote:
Any tech you buy will be obsolete in a few years. If that is your logic, then never buy anything.


The young-timers should consider themselves lucky. Back in the early 90's I was upgrading my cpu and motherboard every year, memory at one time cost me $400 for 4MB (not gigabytes) and a 800x600 15" CRT monitor was $300. Going online was slow and expensive.
And fast forward today I could have still rocked my 4 year old i5-2500k for the majority of games but decided that it was time to jump on a sky lake i7-6700k just for Oculus Rift. We now live in a time that does not require us to upgrade like crazy. But Oculus may change that with at least video cards.


love it just like the old days when we upgraded to just to play a game, nothing has changed like you still updating i bet the 4mb update was for doom lol.
this is part off the fun learning new tech keeps ya young

Anonymous
Not applicable
With the pre orders being early in the morning, I won't be able to get online until 30min after the pre order. I'm afraid that pre orders will be sold out in that 30min period.

Just saw Palmer's tweet, so nevermind. Full steam ahead.

Kalec84
Heroic Explorer
I'm gonna be home... ready... waiting... for that moment... whitout even knowing how much i have to pay!!!! damn!!!