If you’re committed to the idea of virtual reality headsets that work only when connected to a powerful PC, your opportunities to get an Oculus Rift S are running out. The headset Devindra Hardawar said “looks practically irrelevant” is sold out at his own store and on Amazon, while Facebook reports UploadVR in a statement that “In general, as channels run out, they will not be replenished in the future.”
The $ 299 Oculus Quest 2 VR headset, launched last year, brought improved hardware that could work alone or with a PC via Oculus Link, and at the time Facebook confirmed it was already developing PC-only headphones. . This means that the Oculus Rift line that propelled this virtual reality hardware veneration is coming to an end, although the spirit will live on. The reason is explained by what John Carmack told us in 2019, that the releases of Rift S and Quest served as an A / B test to find out which approach could take VR into the mainstream – a question that consumers answered by opting widely for Search .