Does anybody else find this extremely expensive for the bill of materials?
The DK2 sold for $350, and that was likely with significantly smaller expected orders, increasing the cost of each additional unit.
The Rift contains essentially the same materials as a Note 4 phone (screen/accelerator/gyroscope), minus the SoC, but plus some location trackers, headphones, and optics.
I would imagine the actual cost (not including R&D) for the headset alone would be around $300 or so, plus whatever the location sensor costs.
$600 USD seems excessive, especially when hardware tends to have very slim margins.
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