{"id":115851,"date":"2017-03-04T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115851"},"modified":"2017-03-03T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:15:05","slug":"massive-price-cut-for-oculus-rift-vr-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/115851-massive-price-cut-for-oculus-rift-vr-headset","title":{"rendered":"Massive price cut for Oculus Rift VR headset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/blog\/introducing-rift-touch-for-598plus-robo-recall-is-now-available\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> a large price cut for its Rift headset and Touch motion controllers.<\/p>\n<p>The company has slashed the price of the Rift plus Touch bundle from $798 to $598.<\/p>\n<p>The Oculus Rift VR headset and Touch motion controllers are now priced at $499 and $99 respectively, and an additional Oculus Sensor will cost $59.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it is continuing to lower the barrier to\u00a0entry for VR gaming.<\/p>\n<p>It added that\u00a0customers who purchase Touch motion controllers will receive a free copy of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/roborecall\/en-US\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Robo Recall<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this represents another major step forward in making VR available to everyone,\u201d said Oculus.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/201188-oculus-rift-gets-a-massive-price-cut.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/198158-inside-facebooks-oculus-research-lab-photos.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Inside Facebook\u2019s Oculus Research lab \u2013 Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus has announced a large price cut for its Rift headset and Touch motion controllers.<\/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":[6049,24101],"class_list":["post-115851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-oculus-rift","tag-touch-controller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115851","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=115851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115851\/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=115851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}