The Oculus Rift goes up for pre-order this week

5 Jan 2016

Steve Wright

The time has finally arrived: the Oculus Rift will be available for pre-order from 7 January.

From 3.00 am AEDT, you’ll be able to pre-order an Oculus Rift, complete with Lucky’s Tale and EVE: Valkyrie.

You’ll need a computer with the following specs to support the Rift:

NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
8GB+ RAM
Windows 7 SP1 or newer
2x USB 3.0 ports
HDMI 1.3 video output supporting a 297MHz clock via a direct output architecture

A pre-order link and pricing details have not yet been made available. Any bets?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.