{"id":114683,"date":"2017-01-16T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=114683"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:24:23","slug":"htc-vive-and-oculus-rift-south-african-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/114683-htc-vive-and-oculus-rift-south-african-pricing","title":{"rendered":"HTC Vive and Oculus Rift &#8211; South African pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer Raru has listed South African pricing for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n<p>The headsets are available on special order and will be delivered in 10-15 working days.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual reality headsets can be purchased for the following prices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oculus Rift \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/raru.co.za\/electronics\/5431667-oculus-rift-vr-headset-special-order-only\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>R14,999<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>HTC Vive \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/raru.co.za\/electronics\/5431668-htc-vive-vr-headset-special-order-only\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>R19,999<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When asked about the relatively-high local pricing on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaruShopping\/status\/820977027708813312\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong>, Raru said it is due to the local supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are getting these from a local supplier so we have to work with the prices we are being offered the product at I\u2019m afraid,\u201d said Raru.<\/p>\n<p>The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive have been available in the US since 2016, but Raru is among the first local retailers to sell the headsets.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/194836-htc-vive-and-oculus-rift-south-african-pricing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/190944-5-awesome-speaker-systems-for-your-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 awesome speaker systems for your PC<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer Raru has listed South African pricing for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":87694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[13341,6049],"class_list":["post-114683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-htc-vive","tag-oculus-rift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}