Oculus Rift: even if we preorder have to wait months

Oculus is encountering difficulties in mass production of the Oculus Rift units booked by consumers. This is the only thing certain at the moment, but the situation is getting out of hand and a number of rumors are rapidly spreading on the network. According to one of the most colorful, the component that is slowing production would be to Microsoft, or the wireless adapter for the Xbox One controller included in the Oculus Rift package. But this voice, in fact, has no reliable confirmation.

As stated on Reddit, users who have booked their unity of Oculus Rift in the first day of pre-orders opening will have to wait several months before they can get their hands on the new VR viewer. According to what they wrote on Reddit, in fact, they have received communications from Oculus according to which the delivery is now expected in May and June, when, as is known, the first units were delivered on March 28.

Since the beginning of April Oculus has started to send emails to those who have booked the Rift, warning that new estimates on deliveries would be communicated in the following days. But, in fact, this is still estimates, a sign that even Oculus is currently able to provide precise dates for deliveries. Who booked right away could receive their units to close the summer, but who does it now unlikely to have their own Rift August 1. This should allow HTC Lives overcome Oculus in terms of mass delivery of the new VR viewers.

"The lack of a component has influenced the available amount more than we expected so we upgraded our delivery windows to reflect these changes," said a spokesman of Oculus to The Verge. "We apologize for the delay. We are delivering the Oculus Rift units every day and we are focused to solve the problem as soon as possible. We have taken steps to address the shortage of components and from week to week, we will increase the quantity of units delivered. We also increased our production capacity, with the aim of improving the estimates that we communicated. "

As all'indiscrezione relative to the Microsoft component that would limit the mass production, also it has spread via Reddit. It would prove to be the one who calls himself "closely related to the phase of the Oculus Rift launch preparation", but did not provide further details about his relationship with Oculus. But the biggest news of this post would not have much detail on the adapter for the controller, because the data on the drives of Oculus Rift sold only in pre-order, that would be even 300 thousand.

Definitely a sizeable volume for a technology to debut, moreover sold at a price significantly higher than € 699 per unit. On the other hand, we repeat, at the moment there are no confirmations on the reliability of the source, so we must wait for official announcements of Oculus to know the volume of units sold.