Facebook's Oculus reveals Rift S virtual reality headset for $399 USD

Facebook'due south Oculus segmentation has revealed a new virtual reality (VR) headset called the Oculus Rift S at the Gaming Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.

The headset costs $549.99 in Canada and is set to launch in spring 2019, according to Oculus.

Oculus says that it partnered with Lenovo to blueprint the Rift S. Using Lenovo's gaming experience in both the VR and the augmented reality infinite, the company was able to assistance Oculus blueprint a new headset with better weight distribution, improved light blocking and a single cablevision experience.

On top of the headset'southward improved condolement level, the Facebook-endemic company has improved the headset'south display by implementing OLED engineering too every bit an improved resolution ii,560 ten ane,440-pixels (or 1,280 ten ane,440 per eye). Oculus has as well lowered the screen'southward refresh from 90Hz to 80Hz. Further, the Rift Due south' field-of-view is improved over other Oculus headsets.

The Rift S as well supports v-camera tracking, assuasive users to wait at their environs without taking off the headset through a new Passthrough+ feature. The Rift S does not include on-ear headphones and uses near-ear speakers like the Oculus Go, though users can plug in their ain headphone through a three.5mm headphone jack.

As with Oculus Quest, the Rift S will ship with Touch controllers. Additionally, the Rift S supports the same integrated audio arrangement as the Quest.

Oculus suggests that your PC features at least a NVIDIA GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics cards, 8GB of RAM, an Intel i5-4590 or AMD Ryzen v 1500X processors and Windows x. The company besides likewise offers a downloadable tool to encounter if your PC can run the headset.

Source: Oculus