Up until now the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset has only made it into the hands of developers like Jonathon Rudd who developed an Oculus Rift game in his second year of university study.

You can read all about Jonathon’s experience with the Oculus Rift here. You can also get some tips on how to get into careers in the gaming industry from some games developers that Moving On met up with at the EGX gaming event last year.

Now though the VR headset is available to us ‘ordinary’ customers and the founder of the company, Palmer Luckey wanted to deliver the first headset himself rather than have a delivery person do it.

Oculus Rift - Recommended PC Specs:

Video Card NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater

CPU Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater

Memory 8GB+ RAM

Video Output Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output

USB Ports 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port

OS Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer

Check out some demo game play

This is a demo of the Eve:Valkyrie game

Lucky’s Tale - the Virtual reality game that comes with all Oculus Rift purchases

Virtual Reality in Industry

Virtual reality (VR) technology, together with augmented reality is taking industry by storm and provides a platform for things like learning in the medical field. It also offers the construction industry a new way of working.