The long-awaited price for Oculus Rift has finally been confirmed: $599. VR enthusiasts and obsessive gamers (we’re looking at you PCMR) can now pre-order the $599 Oculus Rift on Oculus.com . In the run-up to today’s announcement Oculus founder and all-around-VR-guru Palmer Luckey took to twitter to inform Oculus fans about the details surrounding Oculus Rift pre-orders.
According to Luckey’s account , there will be no “selling-out” of Oculus Rift pre-orders. The company plans to take as many orders as possible and, if the stock of headsets runs out, later pre-orders will receive a later shipping date. The same is true for the recently delayed Oculus Touch controller. A pre-order for the $599 Oculus Rift also includes a pre-order for the Touch controller which is set to ship later this year.
Good news, everyone: When you preorder Rift, you also reserve your spot for Touch preorders. First in line for Rift=First in line for Touch.
— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) January 5, 2016In addition to the Touch pre-order, Oculus Rift buyers will also get two games bundled with the headset: Lucky’s Tale and Eve: Valkyrie. Many gamers are aware of Eve: Valkyrie ’s omniscience as a go-to VR demo as the title has been a convention staple for both Oculus and its competitors, such as Sony’s PlayStation VR .
The finer points of the Oculus Rift pre-order should be no surprise to anyone familiar with high-profile gadget releases. Luckey tweeted that Oculus Rift pre-orders won’t charge the $599 price to the customer until the unit ships, which won’t happen until after the first wave of reviews is in.
We won't lock people into preorders months before reviews come out using our awesome preorder bonuses. We have confidence in our product!
— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) January 6, 2016Oculus is also looking after its Kickstarter backers with a pledge to deliver a free Kickstarter Edition Oculus Rift to anyone who paid for a Rift development kit on Kickstarter before Oculus was acquired by Facebook.
What’re you waiting for? Oculus.com is now accepting pre-orders for the $599 Oculus Rift so if you’ve been eagerly anticipating the VR gaming era, good news, it finally started.
UPDATE: Pre-orders will ship March 2016, according to the Oculus pre-order page.
UPDATE 2: According to Polygon, the pre-order shipping wait list is now up to May 2016.
