Call me a skeptic. Give it three years, and it will join Google Glasses, all previous incarnations of VR, motion-control video games, and 3D TV on the giant scrap heap of over-hyped information and entertainment technology.
$600 US is well beyond what I'd be willing to consider at this point. It doesn't help that I am not a fan of Xbox's controller style. This is just going to push me further toward Sony, depending on their cost.
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I pre-ordered not really thinking about the cost knowing I could easily cancel.
Think I'd be able to sell it on Kijiji for a profit? I know some did with the DK2 (I sold my DK2 at basically cost), but that was half the price. $900 bucks!!!
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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.
$600 USD seems excessive, especially when hardware tends to have very slim margins.
Yeah it is a big chunk of dough. Still they must be selling, delivery now out to May.
Oculus - despite selling out to Facebook - has managed to hold onto a a core fanatical supporters that rivals what Apple does. Good for them though. It's those people that will keep the company viable long enough for me to consider a reasonably priced head set in a couple years.
I purposefully held back on a few other electronic purchases thinking I'll use that money on the Rift instead... with the price and the CND$ where it is, I'm just not excited enough to become an early adopter. I'll wait until there is truly a killer app I "need" before buying.