Oculus Rift Deals & Offers

Oculus.com to buy go to the oculus reddit and they have a pinned thread where people exchange codes

Where do you buy this from to use referral code please?

We have no idea when the Rift S will be revealed, if it's even a real thing in the first place. Just saying.

If you have a decent PC to run it, it's like night and day. The touch controllers and tracking are far superior especially if you have 3 sensors. Also supersampling can make big difference to image quality if your PC can handle it. I have an Oculus Rift, Lenovo Explorer and a PSVR, they all have their pros and cons.

How's this compare to the PSVR?

Not free for me (annoyed)

Seems like it's back to 5.99 ;(

Thanks OP....

Thanks :)

Thank you OP grabbed it :-)

Perfect, thanks!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00SJ22DBK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Here you go, 43mm, the one si have on my rift, they are fantastic.

You don't happen to have a link for those protectors, do you? I searched healshield and can't find anything.

Thanks, just ordered (y)

All gone from Argos.. here's Curry's link https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OCULUS-Rift-Touch-Bundle-Currys/132300458588

nah you don't, it is just plug in 3 USB devices and one HDMI, then follow the on screen instructions and you be set up in 30 mins tops and that includes a software download that take 10 mins. Just be sure to run the oculus PC checker before buying and it checks everything for you :D

Guess a mod better expire this then

Read the last paragraph of the t&c

Is this correct?

I would wait for the oculus quest, it can be used without the PC

still working just got a referal code from reddit working fine

Thanks

You can, but you need to use a VPN. Then if you do get the credit it’ll be in dollars and I’m not sure if you’ll be able to spend it easily.

Decided to take the plunge and try it. Code from subreddit worked but it took for a couple of days to finally nab a working one. Will UK users be able to send out referral codes to receive software credit too?

Worked great. Got a referral from the megathread on a subreddit.

Do you get the 10 quid argos voucher for spending over 100 too?

I picked up a Go just to try one out really. VR is really rather amazing, I have been incredibly impressed.

Same price at Oculus.com and with a 10% referral code you could get it for £314

No market for the £200 Go XD less for the £400 Quest (lol) . Oculus is committed more than any other company to VR both in hardware and software, no doubt a Rift 2 will be announced before long but tech hasn't advanced that much since the original Rift. It wouldn't be wise to do what HTC did with the Vive Pro. I owned the Rift for a year before buying the Samsung Odyssey (Original) and although the screen is much nicer due to the improved resolution and amoled panels it isn't that different.

They want first bring people to VR, and more mainstream and than hits desktops again. People complain about Var is expensive (yea, new phones cost more and still do a basics things for that price). Just look how much cost full kit of Pimax

Just get a display port to hdmi cable or adaptor for your monitor and you’re good to go.

Agree I regret missing out on the ebay code deal..

Thanks OP for posting. Waiting for the £299 before biting. Black Friday with the ebay code I think was £299, so hoping for a similar deal!

Quite fancy one of these but I'm holding out for £300 :) Need to research adaptors anyway as my graphics card only has one HDMI out and I'm using it.

That's what I paid for my PSVR without controllers! Great price. We just need graphics cards prices to drop now.

Ive ordered, cant go too wrong for £10 :) thanks OP! Does this have the locomotion thing as standard or do I need to mod it?

Now if only they'd do a full fat VR Doom!

I've played plenty, and played this through to completion. It was great - very atmospheric, good locomotion after the initial teething problems, and good fun.

Have you tried the PS VR version? It's massively improved with the use of the Aim controller (even though it was a last minute added feature).

If they would just add a way to turn artificially I would be all over this.

Fair enough! I love mine - yeah it has limitations, but for £300 it's not half bad :-)

I was a little concerned due to their policy saying unused items can be refunded no questioned asked in 30 days. But I did hint to their member of staff that I think it could be faulty. Managed to blag a full refund just now. Fair play to the Argos team. I can see why some enjoy VR. But until the resolution and FOV gets a big boost and the elimination of god rays/screendoor/focusing issues are sorted. Then I won’t be back in VR for a while. 👌

I only notice God rays when games are loading, like a white title on a black background. Supersampling can help with resolution if your pc can handle it. VR games can be pretty expensive but I'd just add games you're interested in to your wishlist on steam. Vr games on steam and oculus store can be heavily disconnected over the holiday season. Batman Arkam VR is £4 on cdkeys atm which is worth a shot. Also flight simulators and racing games tend to negate the fov issue for immersion as your vision would be restricted by a helmet anyway.

Be interested to see how you get on - Argos can be a pain for taking stuff back, usually you will have to have a technical call with the manufacturer first.

I’d like to try it. Just can’t justify buying these games when I just cannot get over the poor resolution, poor FOV, the screen door effect and those god rays! It just does nothing for me other than leave me dissatisfied. Just normal 4K gaming for me is much more visually pleasing. So I think I will return my unit. Like the PSVR I had, I feel like we are a couple of generations away from me enjoying VR sadly 😩

Bundle with marvel powers United is back in stock on Amazon - much better deal

My advice would be to get yourself on the Oculus subredddit and see if a friendly American will give you a referral code (via email) for another 10% off buying direct from Oculus. I got mine today for £314

I went lenovo, £200 quid saving and a better resolution, Will upgrade to pimax soon next year. This was a poor deal from oculus.

Shame that Oculus haven’t come up with a better offer. This late in the product’s life cycle I feel we should been seeing sub £300 deals.

It wasn't £600 a year ago that's a fib, it was £349 on Black Friday and $349 in the states. The price is the same as last year so it's a poor deal: https://www.alphr.com/deals/1007793/black-friday-2017-get-an-oculus-rift-and-touch-controllers-for-349 Also I've tried both, and I think you are vastly exaggerating the difference, tracking is marginally better but really not much in it. I wanted Oculus for the store and better SteamVR compatibility.

It so immersive and far better than triple monitors. Multiplayer is awesome with friends, again the gameplay is enhanced as you can literally be next to your friends covering their backs from zombies / enemies etc. It takes any game up several notches for playability.

If it's in stock I'd imagine so. I paid to be collected tomorrow before 5pm

Is this in-store to?

Same price on Amazon now: http://amzn.eu/d/3P5p2KR

I'll second this

20/20 in it

It's a reference to the vertical resolution of the screens available in VR headsets. It's not an exact science, but this generation of Rift is roughly 2k (2160x1080), which means you can see the individual pixels in what is referred to as the Screen Door Effect (SDE). The next generation of headsets will have higher resolution and the SDE will continue to be mitigated until it goes away entirely. The problem with 4k resolutions and above are that you will either need a multiple of the computing power to throw all the pixels around or a technology called Foveated Rendering which can track your eyes to see what you're looking at and only fully render the bit of the screen you actually need.

Great deal

Bought it and never looked back. A great bit of kit with awesome games including above and beat saber (y)

ordered but if I see it cheaper and JL can't price match will return and purchase elsewhere. Didn't want to miss out incase they sold out as an xmas present :)

Just bought 1 from the official website with a referral code! Came down to £314! Can't wait.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B073X8N1YW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 £273.93 Used - Like new (1 left)

Technically a good deal but shouldn't the price be less than the salute a year ago. I guess you can't say it for PC components but still!

Intel i7 6700 or amd Ryzen 1700 with 16GB Ram and NVIDIA GTX 1070/1080 or AMD RX 580. I got NO problems with Ryzen 1700 with 16GB 3000mhz ddr4 ram and AMD Vega 64. Running oculus rift + 3 monitors + Twitch streaming at the same time on setup

No they were £350.

I've voted hot - but be warned - so far I've failed to download any apps using Viveport. I'll be re-installing/debugging at at the weekend. While it looks better laid out than Steam it doesn't seem as good for getting at your apps! Finally got Viveport to work. Tried disabling Windows Firewall - didn't help. Still only getting 0.2 MB/s! Turned off antivirus - Avast - until my next reboot. Managed to download several games.

Thanks...holding out for a deal fingers xd

Yes, if you don't get distracted by the Fresnel lens, it then personally I think it wins over the Oculus everywhere. Tracking wires, I found the Rift got my face way too hot and being a glasses wearer it was awkward to get on and off.

a very warm welcome newbie.cracking first post,have some heat :)

On viveport

Games you may want to rent.. Ultrawings The_Gallery_-_Episode_1:_Call_Of_The_Starseed/ The_Gallery_-_Episode_2:_Heart_of_the_Emberstone/ Richie's_Plank_Experience/ Knockout_League Blasters_of_the_Universe TOGETHER_VR_Deluxe_Edition Fantastic_Contraption Final Soccer Pixel_Ripped_1989 TITAN_SLAYER Nevrosa:_Escape Windlands Transpose Cloudlands:_VR_Minigolf Virtual_Virtual_Reality Counter_Fight

no nothing about this @SavageDonkey however reads beautifully so hot. :)

or 2 diagonally according to the box i ticked when buying.

Requires 3 sensors apparently.

Great deal! Thanks (y)

Found last hope a bit too frantic. I did enjoy serious sam 3 vr tho, especially when the bombers ran towards you arrggghhhhhhh

It's a lot of well made content for not a lot of money. Last Hope and Talos Principle are well worth £15 each so everything else is basically free content. Huge respect to Croteam for putting the work in to porting those to VR.

Serious Sam VR is incredible

I don't even own a VR headset for PC yet, but I'm very tempted by this.