Oculus Announces “Oculus Ready” PC Partnership, Guaranteeing VR PCs under $1,000

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- 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?