Oculus shows off $500 PC as prices start coming down for VR

The new minimum specs for getting into virtual reality are more reasonable than ever before, and that means the overall price has dropped to get into this space.

Oculus VR introduced a $499 “Oculus-ready” machine during a presentation at its developer summit today. This new rig from hardware vendor CyberpowerPC features AMD graphics, and it meets a new set of minimum requirements. Oculus engineers were able to drop the horsepower you need to run VR thanks to a new technology called asynchronous spacewarp that is able to make a game running at 45 frames per second (too low for comfortable gameplay in a head-mounted display) and make it look like it is 90 frames per second.