When the Oculus Rift's official price was revealed last week when the virtual reality headset was made available to pre-order, the community that had been excited for the headset simmered out quite a bit. The $599 price for the headset, two games, sensor, remote, and Xbox one controller was a bit higher than anticipated.
Oculus co-founder, Palmer Luckey, has already gone on record saying the headset is "obscenely cheap" for what it is and will not be seeing the Rift get a price drop any time soon. The main question the community had was when they will be able to afford to adopt VR.
Taking to an open forum on Reddit (via ArsTechnica), Luckey responded to a potential VR adopter how long until someone that doesn't have disposable income would be able to get into VR. According to the Oculus co-founder, your "crappy" computer is what is standing between you and VR – not money.
"If you have a Samsung phone, Gear VR is your current best bet.," said Luckey. "Your crappy PC is the biggest barrier to adoption, which is why we are working with all the major hardware vendors to optimize for VR – if "normal" PCs get good enough to run VR, then the majority of people will be able to buy a relatively cheap headset and just use whatever computer they already own to drive it."
While Luckey bashes our "crappy PCs," he is also tearing down hopes people have for the PlayStation VR, saying it isn't as 'high end' as the Rift.
