The Oculus Rift headset is set to go on sale in early 2016, potentially bringing the beginning of popular virtual reality with it.
In a post published on the Oculus Blog, the team behind the Oculus Rift announced its first consumer virtual-reality headset will ship to consumers in the first quarter of 2016.
Pre-orders for the VR headset will start later this year, and a few dark and mysterious photos of the headset were posted along with the announcement.
According to the Oculus blog, the headset will be based on the Crescent Bay prototype, which means there will be 360-degree positional tracking cameras on the headset.
It will show off some of those features at the E3 gaming convention in July, it has said.
The Oculus Rift began life as a Kickstarter project, which raised more than $2.4 million by selling kits in 2012. It then received round upon round of investment, before it was bought by Facebook last year, for $2 billion.
The company’s original developer kit was followed by an improved one last year. But the company is yet to release a consumer version of the kit, despite showing off impressive versions of it at trade shows and conferences.
View the official blog here:
https://www.oculus.com/blog/first-look-at-the-rift-shipping-q1-2016/