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Oculus Rift: 2015 Launch Unlikely, But Not Impossible

Posted by Soulskill on from the is-the-future-here-yet dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this week during Facebook's 2015 Q1 earnings call, the company seemed to suggest that a 2015 Oculus Rift release date was unlikely. At least, that's what a report about the call from Gamasutra indicated, saying, "It doesn't sound like Oculus will ship the consumer version of its Oculus Rift VR headset this year, or at least not in very large quantities." However, an equity analyst has chimed in to say that the language used during the call shouldn't be interpreted colloquially, concluding that "...there is no information here that rules out Oculus shipping in 2015."

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  1. Okay by ledow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Okay, why does my "bullshit detector" go off. Not on the article, but I thought I'd pop onto Wikipedia and find out when Oculus Rift was first started as a project.

    There's no mention. They mention the huge buyout in 2014, but no mention of the start of it, even under the "History" section.

    And only one of the citations is from before that - an article in 2012. Now, it's not a deep secret, I can google and find stuff from that kind of era discussing it, but why OMIT this information in the History section of your own product's page?

    Maybe it's because, 3 years on from the kickstarter, and millions and millions of dollars later, there's still no commercial product?

  2. Vapourware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sure you can buy an expensive dev version but the consumer version is approaching Duke Nukem Forever territory.