INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
After accidentally leaking images of the headset last month, Valve has just officially announced how much the new Valve Index VR headset
will cost and when it'll go on sale
package that includes the controllers, the headset and the trackers.If that all sounds like a lot of money to spend at one time, however,
expect to drop $499 for the Index Headset, $279 for the Index Controllers and $149 for the new base stations
(Weirdly, from the numbers provided by Valve you can seemingly buy the $749 Valve Index VR bundle and the $149 tracking stations separately
to save $100)Valve picked an interesting day and time to announce its headset, dropping all this information minutes before the start of
today's Facebook F8 keynote where Mark Zuckerberg announced the price and release date of the company's new Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S
It's definitely pricey, but Valve has really tried to make the best VR headset on the market in terms of specs.According to information
90Hz backwards compatibility and an experimental 144Hz mode
On top of all that, the Index VR headset has a 20-degree wider field-of-view than the other headsets on the market.These are game-changing
specs, and would help rationalize the price.That said, picking today of all days to announce a new headset is a risky move
On one hand, Valve's new headset is giving bleeding-edge consumers a new top-tier headset to lust over, but it also shows that Valve could
and more investment in VR from all sides of the aisle is a very good thing and only helps move the industry as a whole forward
We'll look forward to trying the headset out for ourselves when it launches later this year.
