Oculus Rift consumer version preorders open now! $599, shipping March 2016

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@Illusionray;448867

Yeah, maybe we, developers can afford to but the CV1 but we dont make games/movies for us but for the consumers. If they dont buy it, then who would buy our applications? It make me to think one more time about developing for VR. There is so much negative response now that we didnt expect to be. Developing a game for the market isnt cheap and if consumers complains a lot than this is not a good sign. We need to take into account that they need a strong PC, stronger that for DK2 because of 90 FPS. For us it is 750 euro 1 oculus + 1.000 - 1.500 euro for a PC. Consumers dont care what is under the hood of Oculus and what are the cost. If I go buy a TV I don`t care about how many people worked on this tech. This is not a good day for VR devs but I still hope that their will sell a lot of them so we can work on VR and develop some games/movies for it.

Agree, and touch controller later in the year, that mean about perhaps 180€/200 +50 shipping for europe.

I reserved but i think i will cancel it, for developing for fun its enough the dk2, and for developing for money we need a lot of consumers than only the most wealthy/freak.

Perhaps in 1’5 or 2 years with Cv2 and eye tracking and more affordable overall.

That not going to be the year of the VR.

I’m out… partially

and very disappointed as they promised something for the masses, something relatively cheap.