Enlarge / The Rift may finally be real. (credit: Oculus)
Oculus announced today that its long-awaited PC-based Rift virtual reality headset will be available for preorder starting this Wednesday, January 6, at 8am PST (11am EST). We still don't know precisely when the headset will be available or how much it will cost, but the Rift will ship with VR-enabled games Eve: Valkyrie and Lucky's Tale.
The Rift itself is still officially on track for the same "Q1 2016" release window first announced back in May. The hand-tracking Oculus Touch controllers first demonstrated at last year's E3 were recently delayed to the second half of 2016, though; the Rift will initially ship with an Xbox One control pad.
The final price for the consumer unit is an even bigger mystery. Oculus said in October that the consumer edition will cost more than the $350 development kits but would remain "in that ballpark." Back in May, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe said that a Rift and a fully specced PC capable of powering it should cost $1,500 total.
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