Oculus Rift is coming! Pre-orders being accepted...

[Unshaven]

Ahh they rolled out the first commercial version of the Oculus Rift during the CES a few weeks ago.

Yes! This is looking very cool, although I see it's not coming with the cool Touch hand controllers at first.

They have opened pre-orders at Oculus for 599.00 (Current ship date July 2016.) Kind of pricey but first gen tech can be.

https://www.oculus.com/en-us/rift/

Anybody try this yet? I see that Star Citizen is going to support it.

CR talks about the Oculus Rift circa 2013:

Star Citizen on Oculus Rift (or, this looks like I have had too much to drink).

Finally....Funny first reactions to people trying the Oculus Rift (or, how to act wasted without actually consuming alcohol).

I'm curious how many testies are planning to get their Rift on....I see EVE Valkyrie is bundled with the Rift pre-orders. Looks nice.

Recommended system for using the Oculus Rift:

Video Card NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater
CPU Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
Memory 8GB+ RAM
Video Output Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
USB Ports 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port
OS Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer

 

[Grimbli]

Hmm, Rift or second gfx card?

 

[LeftStep]

I pre-ordered mine within the first 8 minutes - here's hoping I can get my hands on it early April....

 

[Joan of Arcturus]

Pre-ordered, June-ish supposedly. I've never tried it, but looking forward to it :cool:

 

[maynard]

pretty sure SC won't support the Rift out of the gate

Imma wait until it's fully supported, hopefully the price will come down a bit by then too

 

[Accented]

Hmm, Rift or second gfx card?

Rift.

 

[SeungRyul]

Pre-ordered, June-ish supposedly. I've never tried it, but looking forward to it :cool:

Holy crap that wait time. Grey market costs for the Oculus CV is gonna be crazy.

 

[lex]

I'd wait for vive and some reviews of both rift and vive.

 

[Carlos Spicyweiner]

Want bad! I'm going to wait for an Amazon package deal: Rift+one year supply of Dramamine and free shipping.

 

[marctek]

I can feel the migraine this will cause coming already. But I will still get one at some point. Looks like it may be worth the pain.

 

[Schmunkel]

Please post videos on here and on the SC Reddit page when any of you get your VR setup going as many of us are interested in seeing how they perform. I would love to see an unboxing/setup video as well.

 

[aLumberingOx]

I just upgraded my computer to handle the Rift, but I'm going to wait till next year so the first commercial gen can get all the kinks out.

 

[Doggen]

Ive been using this for a laugh, its a nice very low budget intro into VR:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/317814/google-cardboard-and-faux-vr-in-star-citizen#latest

suprisingly hard to shoot shit :o