Oculus Rift customers suffer shipments delay due to component shortage

The Xbox One controller and other accessories are hidden in a secret compartment under the tracking camera. (credit: Kyle Orland)

An unknown number of Oculus VR customers have been forced to wait a little longer for the Rift virtual reality headset, after Facebook said it had been hit by "an unexpected component shortage"—thereby delaying some of its shipments.

Oculus—in an update—promised to, er, update customers who have been affected by the hold-up within the next week.

Facebook—which last week began delivering the virtual reality units trumpeted by boss Mark Zuckerberg as "the most social technology ever"—hasn't revealed how many orders were hit by the shipments delay. Oculus said in an e-mail to customers on Saturday:

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