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A flagship phone costs 6-800$. The Rift was selling at Best Buy with a 150$ gift card for 600$. And that is with a bunch of extra hardware (two cameras, tracked
by arielweisberg 9y ago
A flagship phone costs 6-800$. The Rift was selling at Best Buy with a 150$ gift card for 600$. And that is with a bunch of extra hardware (two cameras, tracked controllers, xbox controller, remote) and packaging that probably won't be in gen 2 VR.
So your expectation of what existing VR hardware costs is probably a little off. Let's say that you have a BOM of 500$ to make a Rift. That's 100-300$ to spend on a battery, mobile GPU/CPU and memory, cameras, and associated cooling and packaging. It's within the realm of reason at the 800$ price point.
I think the reality is that BOM will shift around quite a bit. VR might stall at the current level of fidelity for a while (which is fine IMO), but ease of use and price can be improved quite a bit.
Even since launch the cost of the full Rift setup has decreased quite a bit. 1/2 to 1/3rd although I would have to really think harder about what a realistic number is.