Oculus Rift available across Europe from September 20 – Tweakers

The Oculus Rift is a September 20 available from outlets in Europe and not only in Oculus itself. Interested parties should be able to place their orders immediately to the shops for the virtual reality headset from the Facebook daughter.

Oculus makes the news on Tuesday. The MSRP which resists the American developer for the headset is 699 euros. For that price, however, users not associated Oculus touch controllers, as they are not yet marketed. That might come in December, but there is no certainty yet. The company is known about the availability of the controllers on the Oculus Connect fair, which begins on October 5.

Oculus Announces demo stations in addition to a release on September 20. In the coming weeks, the company installs it at 600 locations across the US, Canada and Europe. How many of them will soon be found in the Benelux, is not known. The demonstration Rifts players can The Climb, Henry, Farlands and Oculus try Dream Deck. From October, also try the Touch Controllers at these demo sites. Maybe some parts of the demos so Restricted interactively until the Touch controllers are added.

The Oculus Rift comes with 3D platform game Lucky’s Tale and “hundreds of free 3D 360-degree videos and VR movies. ” In addition, each Rift access to the Oculus Store offers where users even more apps, find games and images. In the Oculus Store, European users can also pay in euros.

For the Oculus Rift users need a relatively powerful computer. The recommended specifications come down to a Core i5-4590 with Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD 290, or hardware that provides similar performance. In addition, 8GB RAM is recommended. There are also two USB 3.0 ports HDMI 1.3 required and must be supported by a minimum pixel clock speed of 297MHz. By the latter are covered by other many laptops left behind. According Oculus such system requirements needed to run the VR content smoothly. Thus the Rift has a resolution of 2160×1200 pixels, spanning two screens, and refreshes the image with 90Hz, which is needed much graphical power.