The Oculus Rift coming in early 2016. Pre-orders at Christmas – BBC

Is not it time yet, but now there is a date for doing the countdown . Whereas this new wave of virtual reality – a horse which you are thrown virtually all – began with Palmer Luckey and his Oculus Rift, it is normal to wait for just the Rift say that what promises to be yet another digital revolution is ready to (try to) win our living rooms. So, after years of development behind closed doors making taste in small doses the different steps of development, Blog Oculus has finally got the message on the shipping of the Rift, glasses are the final part of ‘ecosystem created by the brand for more than a year of ownership of Facebook. An ecosystem made of software and hardware, an app store ready, the contents of contracts already signed and ready to go. If Samsung is already on the market with Gear Vr (born always at home Oculus) and Sony by the great advantage of having already a very popular hardware (Playstation 4) for its Project Morpehus, leaving the other players possible – although highly Htc profile as with lives and with Razer OsVr – the men under the command of Brendan Iribe – co-founder and current CEO of Oculus – and John Carmack – absolute myth of video games, actual cto company – seem to be the ones to have worked better to come to market with a product 360 degrees. Able not to suffer, so to speak, delays in the content (the short film Lost is one example) as it was for the HD or usability as it was (so perhaps final) for 3D at home.

When, then? The Oculus Rift will be on sale from the first quarter of 2016 , with pre-orders will start later this year. We hypothesize Christmas. Timing which seem quite adherent to those of the paper fiercest rival, Sony just with Morpheus. The images, deliberately a bit ‘dark, the model that will be sold is an evolution of the current Crescent Bay with a tracking system more sophisticated to make the perfect dive experiences either sitting or standing, and greater attention to details of the final product in terms of aesthetic and ergonomic.

In short, we would be the final details . With a proclamation’ve heard in recent months: “Virtual reality will transform the video games, the film industry, communication and more.” Before the pre-sales and the actual sale, another appointment is relaunched from offices in Menlo Park. That ‘s definitely more near and concrete E3 in Los Angeles: California during the exhibition of video games, the communication will become complete. Maybe even with a price (which should be around 2-300 euro). “We will announce the details of the hardware, software, system input and on many games and experience ready for Rift that we have not announced.” But someone, like my colleague Marta Serafini, has been able to test during the conference F8, the Facebook developer.