Oculus founder says 'VR will become something everyone wants'

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says that 'VR will become something everyone wants before it becomes something everyone can afford'

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With Oculus all-hands-on-deck for the launch of the Rift VR headset, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey took to Twitter on Christmas Eve saying some huge things about VR and its future.

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Luckey said in his tweet "Reminder of something I have talked about before: VR will become something everyone wants before it becomes something everyone can afford". Luckey's tweet would be a way of talking about the price concerns around the Rift, with Luckey tweeting afterwards "there are a lot of people who expect to spend a couple hundred bucks and use their existing low-end laptops" to play VR content.

Luckey continued his tweet rampage, adding "we are taking some big steps to make sure people know what they are getting into - we don't want to sell to people who don't".

Personally, I think VR will be big enough that people will spend money on it. It's like buying a console, right? People don't just buy an Xbox One or PS4 and get to gaming - they forget that they have to already own a TV, which can cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. On top of that, you need a lounge - and something to put your TV on. VR will be the same. A few hundred for the VR headset, and Oculus expects you to have the other hardware to get it working.

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