- Oculus announced at their conference Oculus Connect 2 a partnership with Asus, Dell and Alienware to produce ‘Oculus Ready’ PCs, pricing at under $1000

- Oculus VP of Product says Oculus Rift will cost at least $300:

http://www.pcgamer.com/oculus-rift-price/

- recently Andrew House from Sony said their PlayStation VR would be priced a new console:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=208257&page=1

- meanwhile Samsung announced a $99 Oculus-made Samsung Gear VR which works with the whole 2015 line of Samsung Smartphones including the Note 5, S6, S6 Edge, and S6 Edge+

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/24/gear-vr-for-all/

- looking at the specs required for Oculus Rift to work with your PC it would seem like, at the very least, a GTX 970 or AMD equivalent will be necessary to run it

http://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-announces-oculus-ready-pc-partnership-guaranteeing-vr-pcs-1000/

- Impressions for Oculus demos at Oculus Connect 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s37pjmMU33U

- Oculus Touch was also announced:

- Oculus Touch is a hand controller system that lets you navigate the virutal world in a more natural way. Each grip includes both motion-based input as well as physical controls and haptic feedback -- in some cases, you'll feel what you touch in the VR space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BuN1uyq48

http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/11/oculus-touch/

- Epic Games is releasing a game for it called Bullet Train, demo from Oculus Connect 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmaxmnPzMWE

VR is taking over? Are you excited?

You should just make this the official VR thread. We don't have one and we really should, and you seem to have put together a really great start here.

Anyways! It's nice to see "Oculus ready" PCs will be available for under $1,000, but that's still $1,000. So it looks like the total investment for a Rift will be somewhere between $1200 and $1500.

I also really like that Bullet Train demo. Obviously it would need a lot of work to be a real game, but I like the way it works with the Touch controllers and it looks fun.

"Priced as a new console."

...But it's not a new console, Sony. It's a peripheral. Like, I get that it's expensive tech, but don't lie to us, man...

...it hurts. :'-{

Not really but things like Kingdom Come might make it more interesting. Though I have a really bad motion sickness issue and can't imagine myself being able to wear one of those.

Well, I don't think the first wave of VR headsets is meant to really have mass market appeal. Just like any new tech it starts of expensive and relies on early adopters (many of whom will likely already have PCs capable of running VR) to carry the tech until costs come down. Just like with HDTVs or Blu-ray players.

The Gear VR is the HMD most likely to have mass market appeal. Since it only costs $99 and runs off of any new Samsung phone.

A thread for all this VR could be a good idea but I don't have enough enthusiasm for the thing to carry such responsibility. :)

999$ PC + 350$ Oculus rift + 100? ish $ Oculus Touch.
= ~1449$

vs

399$ PS4 + 299? ish $ (PS VR) (just useing normal Dual shock controller).
= ~ 698$ still way to expensive imo.

PS4 needs a price cut and a bundle with PS VR for like 499$.

Experianceing VR should be doble at 500$ or under, until it is, I dont think it ll gain mass market appeal.

there also the Samsung option as well. VR sells at $99 but needs to be used with latest phones that apparently cost $700. I am not sure if they all cost all that but honestly I am too lazy to look check their prices.

That's expensive! Looks like the common folk won't be able to jack ourselves into a video game for a long time.