HTC Vive priced at $799, available in early April

The sort of people willing to drop $599 for an Oculus Rift are probably the same sort of people willing to drop $799 for a Vive. The Vive certainly looks like a more attractive bit of kit to me. I am glad I held off on placing the Rift pre-order now.

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11145102

Well Occulus is in trouble...

At these prices, is mainstream vr dead ?

How can it be dead? It hasn't even begun yet. The original iPhone was $500 w/ contract, the first iteration of a new technology is always going to be expensive.

Plus the Rift and Vive are just the high-end headsets, the GearVR is doing pretty well at a much lower price point and now is being bundled with Galaxy S7 pre-orders. There will be millions of consumers with headsets by the end of the year and there's tons of momentum, it's not dead, it's unborn.

A Tesla Roadster cost 110k$ in 2008, are electric cars dead?