Oculus founder: Rift VR headset is ‘fancy wine’; Google Cardboard is ‘muddy water’

If the future ever brings us virtual reality sommeliers, they may treat the Rift headset as one of their finest products.

Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus VR and who is instrumental in the development of the Rift, used Twitter yesterday to explain that the price of his company’s head-mounted display may come as a shock to some consumers who want to jump into the metaverse. But that also led him to say that people will want the Rift over less-functional competitors, like the affordable Google Cardboard that works with mobile phones.