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

With a Gen1 release, Oculus is trying to build its "core audience" which will be the PC Gamer. Any serious PC gamer will have built their own custom rig to play games. As long as they can nail this audience, they'll be able to grow from there with more "mass consumer" equipment to target lower capability computers.

lfowles on Jan 6, 2016 [–]

This makes me think a better nickname for this revision is Hobbyist Version rather than Consumer Version.

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