Oculus Rift
3D World UK|June 2018

PRICE £399/$399 | COMPANY Oculus VR | WEBSITE www.oculus.com

Glen southern
Oculus Rift

Two years on from launch and the Rift is still going strong. After early legal bumps in the road were sorted Facebook focused on letting Oculus grow. A price drop last year helped (now £399 in the UK), and after the late addition of the intuitive Touch controllers the Rift is now rushing headlong to provide its users with some much-needed high-end content.

The headsets now being affordable is one part of the equation, as you need a high-end PC to run the Rift on. Minimum specs have dropped to an Intel i3-6100 CPU and now only an Nvidia GTX 960 (it was the 970), but as the software have become more demanding you might want to check that out a little more closely before committing. The early development (DK1) Rift had a tendency to make people motion sick and any slow down in performance isn’t going to improve things.

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