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basisword on Jan 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

I wouldn't say it never shipped to consumers. It was available for purchase on the Play Store alongside their other consumer products, and billed as an 'explorer edition'. If it was only intended for devs it should have been available for purchase on the dev site and billed as a developer edition.

wnevets on Jan 6, 2016 [–]

exactly, the high price tag was to discourage (but not actually preventing) normal consumers from buying it and being burned by a poor experience.

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