Oculus Rift's Recommended PC Specs, Resolution Announced

@ApexMjolnir: thats why i think. i mean maybe the oculus rift wont run next gen games on high settings but something between low and medium. But i dont think it will be the best idea to port games, the dude from Oculus once said that some games mechanics in videogames will cause nausea or disorientation. Like walking backwards and shooting, getting blasted by a granade, anything that causes sudden movement will melt your brain lol.

@seithan: I guess ports of next gen games will run on low settings . But games of the x360 era will run at full speed with a gtx960-980

VR headsets will only go mainstream when tech in general gets very cheap, like owning a tv or radio. Until that time, its gonna stay a product of the few like the tri-monitors are, special chairs with steering wheel setups, full liquid systems and etc.

Maybe if they added a box to connect to, a box that essentially drive the raw power needed, maybe then.

Cause, making dual or tri-sli computers also takes special mobos, cases and cpus too.

@neog777: Lucky me, I'm not afflicted with an infantile stomach.

@PcGamingRig: obviously with a name like that

@rarerichz: The recommended GPU is a 970, but that isn't a "minimum". It's an open platform, so there's not going to be a hard minimum like you would see for an individual game. Chances are that your 960 will work for most VR applications, and many VR games.

@saturatedbutter: That's 1 billion total, and that has a good chance to happen over time when you consider that the VR market, before even consumer-oriented products are out, are already branching into not just core gaming, but mobile, film, and television sectors, as well as cheap novelty stuff like Cardboard.

Samsung and HTC are now relatively big players in the VR market, and Steam surveys from 2013, with a bit of conservative extrapolation, suggest that there are somewhere between 13 and 15 million Steam users, alone, that could utilize VR HMDs on their current hardware. Of course, that will expand by quite a lot in the next few years, and maybe even by an unprecedented degree if VR in 2016 incentivizes more spending.

@saturatedbutter: You're overestimating how much this kind of PC costs. You could build this for under $1000. With a SSD/HDD setup, even.

Not that I necessarily disagree with you overall point.

@saturatedbutter: The 1 billion was never for gamers, at least not "serious" games. I don't actually believe they'll reach a billion but I'm just saying as everyone already has said, Facebook's overall long term goal for VR is not the Oculus stuff that's coming soon. The eventual VR for "everyone" (assuming it happens) probably won't even have any Oculus branding associated with it.

Those specs are the recommended for the life of OR. In 2 -3 years those specs will be much cheaper to achieve.

They already said lower specs are fine but depending on just how much lower they won't last the life of the OR.

@DanielL5583: Soon.

@brockelley: The 970 is the Oculus recommended GPU to utilize their consumer HMD.

@brockelley: dont worry, a 780 is better than a 970 :D

@Loki-1976: That's why the "requirements" are labeled as a "recommendation," by Oculus. You're right, it's not like a single game, where the development studio has complete control over how the game scales and runs, and can set hard lower limits to run the game- it's an open platform that will run many different games, and different types of games, and many applications in general. They can't really set any hard minimum, and that is why the recommended specs are just that- recommendations.

@Loki-1976: meh, that's just to run games at 90fps at 1440p maximum settings. you can always lower all that stuff to run on lower end software.

@Loki-1976: Calm your childlike mind and think rationally. This is a still in design newly created piece of hardware, and it has specific requirements to allow it to work properly. While these requirements may be relaxed or increased in the future this is what they are currently.

No amount of complaining from people who are obviously offended that they cannot play with cutting edge technology on low end PCs is going to change things.

Afford it or dont, bitching at a gamespot article is going to change nothing.

@Loki-1976: It's a minimum requirement or, more likely, recommended requirement. You need a setup equivalent to this to play games at the full resolution at 90 fps.