IHS teardown breaks Oculus Rift

IHS have taken apart an Oculus Rift including the headset, a sensor, and an Xbox One wireless controller costs to work out how much it all cost and come up with a figure of $199 just for the bits.

Touch controllers will not ship till later

As Oculus Rift finally shipped out the last of its much delayed pre-orders to customers, it seems that there is another product delay which has gone un-noticed.

Analysts consult their tarot cards

Diviners and shamans working at the Taipei-based Topology Research Institute have been rattling their bones and consulting their tarot cards and reached the conclusion that Sony will sell six million  PlayStation VR (PS VR) headsets in 2016.

FitBit’s COO headhunted

Oculus VR’s CEO, Brendan Iribe has announced that Laird Malamed is no longer the company Chief Operating Officer. Instead Hans Hartmann will be leaving FitBit, where he is currently COO, to take over.

Certified Rift-ready bundles

Oculus has officially blessed PCs that can handle the VR requirements for its AR specs.

Xbox One control pad not to blame

Software giant Microsoft has moved to deny a daft internet rumour that it was responsible for the ongoing Oculus Rift supply issues.

For some pre-orders

Last week at Nvidia's Games Technology Conference in Silicon Valley many people were moaning about the difficulties they were having getting their hands on the Oculus or HTC Vive. Now it seems that some of the early adopters of Oculus will have to wait for additional two months.

A total of 30 games to be available at launch

Oculus has announced a list of games that will be available when the Rift virtual reality (VR) headset launchs on March 28th, as well as the new Oculus Home on Rift, a new VR UI. 

ZBOX as a way into VR

Zotac’s MAGNUS EN980 ZBOX mini-PC might provide you with a PC that can handle Oculus Rift or HTC Vive VR headset.

But the Gear VR is much cheaper

Sony has admitted that its Gear VR is not as good as the Oculus rift, but then you sort of expect that.