Oculus has come a long way and on the eve of the pre-order launch, the company has decided to give something back for backers who pledged and supported them at the very beginning. The VR headset maker has decided to give out Kickstarter Edition Oculus Rift VR headsets to initial backers for free.
The same was announced on Kickstarter, which is where it all began, and those who backed the project in its initial days will get receive an email with information regarding how to obtain one for free. As for availability, backers will get their special edition headsets by 1 February.
Also if you belong to a country where Oculus is currently not shipping its consumer edition headsets to, you get special privileges as backer. Details about the same will be conveyed in an email from Kickstarter.
So far the only confusion seems to do with the Touch controllers, to which Oculus founder Palmer Luckey tweeted that pre-ordering the VR headset will also put you in to be eligible to buy the controller. The headset also works well with Xbox controllers.
A couple of hours from now Oculus will be hitting a big milestone with pre-order for its Oculus Rift VR headset going live. The company has come a long way and is now owned by Facebook. While there are plenty of indicators that VR is going to be big this year, things may head south as not all systems will be able to support VR headsets. Oculus even has a webpage and is now branding gaming systems with its ‘Oculus Ready’ standard.
Last we heard just one percent of the currently available PC’s worldwide will be able to run VR headsets and deliver the optimal experience. Another problem is to do with content. For now every pre-order will get owners a copy of Lucky’s Tale and EVE: Valkyrie. Sony on the other hand seems pretty comfortable developing content for its PlayStation VR platform.
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