Oculus pre order information

Titus Balls

Titus Balls
MAIN SEQUENCE said:
Can you link the source for that please?
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Eh, me - I said it. It's based on what I saw on Reddit. Can confirm no money has been taken from me.

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Frank said:
£410. More expensive than I thought but not that much more expensive.
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Nope, £499 due to UK taxes - and that doesn't include shipping. Total *estimated* cost was £529 when I got to the end of the checkout.
 

Frank

Frank
Titus Balls said:
Eh, me - I said it. It's based on what I saw on Reddit. Can confirm no money has been taken from me.

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Nope, £499 due to UK taxes - and that doesn't include shipping. Total *estimated* cost was £529 when I got to the end of the checkout.
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Looks like waiting isn't really a choice for me then <grin> Anyone want any of my blood? Here's a nice liver for sale.. going cheap!
 

jabokai

jabokai
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Trying to find something official on that myself and this is all I've found so far, wouldn't say it's 100% clear:

https://support.oculus.com/hc/en-us/articles/214878598-Oculus-Rift-Pre-order-details#section5
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"Rift preorders are different from most of the games industry. You don't get charged until we ship - no deposit lock-in, no bonus pressure."
"We won't lock people into preorders months before reviews come out using our awesome preorder bonuses. We have confidence in our product!"

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/684540696951308288
 
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ghcannon

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Waw what a bad evening this turned out to be :((

TLDR: Does 0.6 run with CV1 - 90% no. Will say for the other 10% after I get my desktop PC living again.

Longer answer: Setup everything, plugged the headset in - runtime didn't notice it. Tried with the base station - same thing. Then tried a bunch of configurations - nope. Dug into Oculus files to find device IDs and tried some simple stuff - nope.

Then, finally, in a moment of supreme ignorance I decide there's a small chance the newer AMD Crimson display driver I installed may be causing the issue. Normally, I'd just grab my DK2 and just verify it gets seen by the runtime. But it's currently at a friend, cuz, you know, i have a cv1 with me.

As I was uninstalling Crimson, somewhere in the middle of the uninstaller, where usually it would unload the driver context, my display went completely blank. PC apparently was still running though. I hit the power of button, it politely shut down, then started it again and still get nothing on the display. Tried several simple things - nothing. Then I checked out if google knows anything about this and guess what ... I'm not the only one. Apparently it's a Crimson thing.. So expect a raging post in the AMD forums in a short while, right after i do what will probably be a windows reinstall.

And so I type this from my work macbook .. goddamnit!

Looking at it from the bright side - will have a clean testbed to try out stuff ... yey ?
 

Nomadski

Nomadski
£529

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drkaii

drkaii
Items:
Oculus Rift(£499.00 ) x 1 = £499.00
Taxes,Surcharges and Fees: Applicableshipping, taxes and duties will be added to and charged in your payment uponshipment of the unit.
Order Total: £529.00
Why does that line bother me?
 

jabokai

jabokai
drkaii said:
Items:
Oculus Rift(£499.00 ) x 1 = £499.00
Taxes,Surcharges and Fees: Applicableshipping, taxes and duties will be added to and charged in your payment uponshipment of the unit.
Order Total: £529.00
Why does that line bother me?
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"International Rift prices are not artificially bloated - we have to cover the required taxes, sales tax in USA works differently."
"All the international prices are essentially the converted US price+required taxes, customs fees, etc."

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/684774327007358976

Bit contradictory, but would make the UK price, for example, more sensible if it already includes all that.
 
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CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE
drkaii said:
Items:
Oculus Rift(£499.00 ) x 1 = £499.00
Taxes,Surcharges and Fees: Applicableshipping, taxes and duties will be added to and charged in your payment uponshipment of the unit.
Order Total: £529.00
Why does that line bother me?
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Bit the bullet and pre-ordered. On the final page:

"You'll be charged when your order ships. Tax is included in order total."

Also: Customs: £0.00
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Shame it couldn't say any of this before you reach the checkout.

Question: let's say Oculus reduce the price between now and our shipment date (very unlikely but you never know), will we be charged the price on our order or the reduced price?
 

Nomadski

Nomadski
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Bit the bullet and pre-ordered. On the final page:

Shame it couldn't say any of this before you reach the checkout.

Question: let's say Oculus reduce the price between now and our shipment date (very unlikely but you never know), will we be charged the price on our order or the reduced price?
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I don't think they could get away with charging anything but the release price. Most companies state that in a price guarantee, OVR haven't but they probably don't plan on not overcharging changing the price.
 
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Pate

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Hmm, on my iPad the price shows as €69900. That is pretty steep! Also says that the delivery will be in May 2016.

Pate
 

StarSail

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Shipping won't start till May, that gives Frontier almost 4 months to get it done.
Pre-Orders are just to keep us warm....

I expect you might still get a VIVE before you get the CV1 in your hands...

Also my DK2 is working with Direct to HMD access right now, not perfect, but it works, so there's no reason to despair.
 

Slopey

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Slopey
weirdgod said:
Didn't they say, that shipping will be on target, within Q1?
May is not Q1, its mid of Q2... ?
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First shipment date is 28th March. Obviously, if you're 299,999 in the queue, it's going to be later...
 
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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Well I preordered my Rift today (after 20 attempts!) And will not buy a Vive - not being a hardware n--- (word rhyming with yahtzee starting with 'n'), I'm just going with the company who I believe will deliver the better product for me.

Plus, I think Oculus Touch is going to be immense.

If the SteamVR experience is 'right on', I'll be happy - but I'll be ecstatic if native 1.0 support is eventually announced.

If it doesn't get supported properly at all - I probably will ragequit (although very politely), and I'm one of the many KS backers. The VR experience is absolutely key for me, and not having it on the platform of my choice is a deal breaker.

But I do have faith that a solution will; be found - I just think it needs to be given a higher priority than perhaps it currently has.

I do applaud the continual update here from Zac though - cheers dude.
 
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A300

A300
You lot are sad.
Yesterday Frontier got it in the neck because they wouldnt say if they would support CV1.

Today no one gives a hoot cause the thing is to flipping expensive anyway.

WONDER WHY FRONTIER DON'T COMMENT MUCH HERE!!
 
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CMDR Dahak

CMDR Dahak
A300 said:
You lot are sad.
Yesterday Frontier got it in the neck because they wouldnt say if they would support CV1.

Today no one gives a hoot cause the thing is to flipping expensive anyway.

WONDER WHY FRONTIER DON'T COMMENT MUCH HERE!!
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Um... given the number of people in this thread stating that they ordered it... I'd say we're giving more hoots than a barnfull of owls.

Mine will be shipping in March.
 
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