drunkie
while it seems cool the price tag of 1500 is  going to really hurt it

Zuhl3156
I think I'll pass no matter what the final price ends up at.

Baltothewolf
I wish they would also have some form of running pad to go with this. I would love to play BF4 with a oculus plus running pad. Would be a great workout. Hell, even DayZ would be worth playing again. I could get my 20lbs lost goal done in a month, haha.

Brad_Hawthorne

Baltothewolf
I wish they would also have some form of running pad to go with this. I would love to play BF4 with a oculus plus running pad. Would be a great workout. Hell, even DayZ would be worth playing again. I could get my 20lbs lost goal done in a month, haha.

VR is best suited for seated content. Your sense of balance is all messed up in VR while standing unless you have a full body sensor setup like PrioVR.
 
Also, the title for this thread is misdirection by rjohnson11. It's the next version, not the final version. It would be like saying the GTX980ti was the final version of a Nvidia card.

"We're roughly in that ballpark... but it's going to cost more than that," says Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey

Oculus VR
Oculus VR's Rift headset will cost more than $350, according to founder Palmer Luckey, putting the price-point at the very top or even above the company's initial estimate.

Speaking to Road To VR at the Oculus Connect conference, Luckey responded to a query about whether the Rift's price would be in line with its $350 developer kits.

"You know, I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. We're roughly in that ballpark... but it's going to cost more than that," he said.

Oculus hasn't optimised around achieving the lowest possible price, Luckey explained, instead making, "no compromises...in terms of quality." The Rift's main components - lenses, displays, tracking - are all custom designed, and the company decided to sacrifice cost savings that would mean even a 10 per cent reduction in quality of experience.

"I can't tell you that it's going to be $350, and I would say I think people are going to be happy with what they get for the price because I really do think it's going to be that best VR headset you can buy."

Valve may well contest that point. Between the Rift, PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift, HTC and Valve's headset is the only one that has tracked hand controllers included in the basic package, principally because they make the VR experience, "exponentially better." Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Valve's Chet Faliszek explained that the company views their mandatory inclusion as "important" for creating the best user experience.

That won't be the case with the Oculus Rift, which isn't even shipping its Touch controllers until the quarter after the RIft launches. PlayStation VR will be the same, though Sony can at least rely on some customers already having Move controllers.

So, the VR experience that Oculus is most excited about - the one only accessible with Touch controllers - will cost even more than the RIft's $350-plus price-tag. It should also be noted that this is at the very top end of the $200 to $400 range that Oculus estimated when it finalised specs for the consumer version.

agent8

peteo_85
if its cheaper than a top of the line iPhone/Android then im fine with that. Considering you're looking at a magnified cellphone screen but packed with so much potential... Im ok between $300-$500

My Lg G3 was $0.01 with a plan from AT&T, google cardboard is under $20. I never used Oculus rift but it would have to be WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better than Google cardboard for me to spend any money on it.

agent8

Drazhar

agent8

peteo_85
if its cheaper than a top of the line iPhone/Android then im fine with that. Considering you're looking at a magnified cellphone screen but packed with so much potential... Im ok between $300-$500

My Lg G3 was $0.01 with a plan from AT&T, google cardboard is under $20. I never used Oculus rift but it would have to be WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better than Google cardboard for me to spend any money on it.

Which means you were paying AT&T every month for your LG G3, if we're going to do comparisons then we shouldn't allow subsidized costs.

Only for the service, which actually, my parents are paying for it because they get some discount through their plan. The phone was a penny outright. No hidden costs and was not added. My mom was also able to haggle the cost of our data plan somehow. She has always been a pro at bargaining. . My point was that almost everyone has a smart phone so the cost of cheap VR is under $20. I guess if you had a stupid blackberry or weird flip phone, it wouldn't work but those people that own those deserve not to have a vr experience. lol

http://www.uscellular.com/uscellular/cell-phones/showPhones.jsp?customerType=nc&transactionType=addLine&skuType=twoYear&filters={%22price%22:[%220.01,0.01%22]}