Oculus VR Announces Rift-Ready PC Bundles, Preorder Starts On Feb. 16
Oculus revealed what it calls Oculus Ready rigs that are bundled with the virtual reality headset.
The PC units come from Asus, Alienware and Dell, and they have all been tried and tested with the Oculus Rift. The bundles start out at $1,499 for a “limited time only,” and the price goes all the way up to more than $3,000.
The virtual reality headset is pegged at $599, and a PC that can provide a smooth VR experience doesn’t exactly come cheap. In other words, these bundles offer customers the Oculus Rift plus a PC that can render virtual reality at discounted prices.
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Of course, virtual reality enthusiasts have the option to build their own rigs instead of availing one of the bundles that Oculus brought to the table.
According to the company’s recommended specs, computers will need at least an Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD 290, an Intel i5-4590, 8 GB of RAM and an updated operating system of Windows 7 SP1 or later under their hoods.
To break the components of the cheapest bundles – the Asus G11CD and Dell XPS 8900 SE – in the lineup down, an Intel i5-6400 is approximately $190, an Nvidia 970 around $300, a 1 TB hard disk about $50, 8 GB of RAM at $60, a copy of Windows and a decent case and motherboard are at roughly $100 each. That comes to a total of $900. Add $599 more to that figure for the Oculus Rift, and it goes up to the same $1,499 starting price.
What people can do here is to bump up to the $500 Nvidia 980 for an overall better virtual reality experience while keeping the price from skyrocketing, not to mention that the makers of Elite: Dangerous say that this GPU is a minimum requirement to run the game.
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