{"id":75620,"date":"2015-05-17T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=75620"},"modified":"2015-05-17T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:12:20","slug":"interested-in-the-oculus-rift-well-you-cant-afford-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/75620-interested-in-the-oculus-rift-well-you-cant-afford-it","title":{"rendered":"Interested in the Oculus Rift, well you can&#8217;t afford it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excited to try the Oculus Rift? Are you tantalising over its VR capabilities? Well, we have some sad news for you cash strapped peons, you won&#8217;t\u00a0be able to afford the wonders of VR, or at least most of you won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0have the optimal experience with the Oculus Rift, you&#8217;ll need to have a PC with very high specifications. Apparently, virtual reality is just too awesome for poor people.<\/p>\n<p>If you consider yourself a fairly average consumer, you might want to look away now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75624\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/635569220824656065-Toyota-TeenDrive365-Oculus-Rift-0001-e1431863278639.jpg\" alt=\"635569220824656065-Toyota-TeenDrive365-Oculus-Rift-0001\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The specs needed are\u00a0as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nvidia GTX 970 or an AMD R9 290<\/li>\n<li>Intel i5 4590 or greater<\/li>\n<li>8GB+ of RAM<\/li>\n<li>Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7\u00a0SP1 or newer<\/li>\n<li>2x USB 3.0 ports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The final version of the headset will run a 2160\u00d71200 display at 90Hz. For the best experience with the Oculus Rift, you&#8217;ll\u00a0need three times the GPU power required for general\u00a01080p gaming. That&#8217;s why we have included a local list of prices and guarantees for GTX 970s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Galax\u00a0GTX 970 EXOC Black Edition, for<strong> R4,999<\/strong> with a 2 year\u00a0warranty, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wootware.co.za\/galax-97nqh6dnb4tx-geforce-gtx-970-exoc-black-edition-4096mb-gddr5-256-bit-pci-express-3-0-desktop-graphics-card.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wootware<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>MSI GTX 970 4GD5T OC, for\u00a0<strong>R5,599\u00a0<\/strong>with a 3 year warranty, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wootware.co.za\/msi-gtx-970-4gd5t-oc-n970-4gd5t-oc-pci-e-desktop-graphics-card.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wootware<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Asus Strix-GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5, for\u00a0<strong>R5,599\u00a0<\/strong>with a 3 year warranty, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarkpc.co.za\/store\/asus-gtx970-gtx970dc2oc4gd5-strix-nvidia-geforce-graphics-card-p-12768.html?osCsid=vr2qo2m1fl2slmpq67ks1uc1d0\" target=\"_blank\">Landmark Computers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our heads hurt from just how damn expensive it&#8217;s going to be to run an Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n<p>But if you have plenty of cash, why not go ahead and indulge in virtual reality. Or for some of us, it could just be a waste of money. It is up to you.<\/p>\n<h4>Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/blog\/powering-the-rift\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oculus VR<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality will be all about the haves and have-nots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":75622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3180,10523,47,13972,13974,6049,11756,13970,6050,6477],"class_list":["post-75620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-feature","tag-features-2","tag-gpu","tag-gtx-970","tag-nvidia-gtx-970","tag-oculus-rift","tag-oculus-vr","tag-recommended-specifications","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75620","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\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75626,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75620\/revisions\/75626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}