Oculus Rift developer kits go up for regular pre-order, catch VR procrastinators

[wraggster]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/08/oculus-rift-kickstarter.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/oculus-rift-developer-kits-go-up-for-regular-pre-order/)Anyone who's been wanting to make a game for the Oculus Rift (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/16/oculus-rift-hands-on/) headset, but hemmed and hawed during the Kickstarter run (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/01/oculus-rift-kickstarter-john-carmack/), now has a second chance. Oculus has kicked off its own pre-order campaign that offers the VR developer kit at the same $300 that it cost for the more proactive among us, or $345 for those beyond US borders. As an added incentive, the first 1,000 who pull the trigger still get a copy ofDoom 3: BFG Edition to show what the Oculus Rift can do. Twiddling your thumbs will have cost at least a month -- these new kits won't ship until January -- but the pre-order still means a head start over competing developers that haven't yet seen the virtual light.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/oculus-rift-developer-kits-go-up-for-regular-pre-order/