Oculus Rift Pre-Orders Start Wednesday; Touch Delayed

Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift headset from Facebook-owned virtual-reality outfit Oculus VR will begin Wednesday, but gamers waiting for Oculus Touch controllers will have to wait a little longer.

Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift headset from Facebook-owned virtual-reality outfit Oculus VR will begin at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET Wednesday, but gamers waiting for Oculus Touch controllers will have to wait a little longer.

Oculus announced in a blog post that every Rift headset will come pre-bundled with Lucky’s Tale from Playful, as previously announced, along with new addition EVE: Valkyrie from CCP Games.

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The company also explained the delayed launch for Touch in a separate blog post:

On the path to perfecting Touch, we’ve decided that we need more time before release, and we’ll now be shipping Touch in the second half of 2016.

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