Oculus Rift And Touch Bundle Plummets To $399 For A Limited Time

by Brandon Hill — Monday, July 10, 2017, 10:50 AM EDT

If you’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to jump in an experience the Oculus Rift for some kickass virtual reality gaming, then now is probably the best time to jump in feet first. Oculus is kicking off its summer sale, and as part of the 6-week long promotion, the Oculus Rift + Oculus Touch bundle will receive a $200 price cut. This drops the price of entry down to a more palatable $399.

This new price drop comes after the Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch were separately discounted permanently to $499 and $99 respectively. At $399, the Oculus Rift should appeal to a much broader audience and could help to further drive VR adoption. However, we wish that the price cut was permanent instead of being just a summer-long promotion.

While this bundle will get you the Oculus Rift headset with its high-resolution OLED displays and two Touch controllers (one for each hand), you are still responsible for providing a decent gaming rig to get enable the VR experience. To get started, Oculus recommends that you have at least an Intel Core i3-6100 processor, 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960/AMD Radeon RX 470.

Recommended specs are a Core i5-4590, GeForce GTX 1060/Radeon RX 480 and 8GB of RAM. Of course, if you have even more powerful hardware to bring to the table, you should have an even better immersive gaming experience.

In addition to the Rift + Touch combo offer, Oculus is also talking up the arrival of Echo Arena and Lone Echo, both of which arrive in the Oculus Store on July 20^th. The Unspoken will also have an extended free multiplayer weekend that lasts through July 12^th.

Tags: (NASDAQ:FB), Oculus Rift, oculus touch

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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