Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Virtual Reality category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £394
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Oculus or alternative products in the Virtual Reality category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset
OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset scores 8.3/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Virtual Reality. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Virtual Reality, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Virtual Reality? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset scores 9.4/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Virtual Reality category was £1119, whilst the cheapest we found was £189 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Virtual Reality category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Virtual Reality category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Virtual Reality category. This was £452.25 from the 8 products we found in that category. So OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset actually comes in below average at £394.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £1119 and the least expensive, which was £189. In total we found that of the 8, 3 were more expensive and 4 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset.
Prices of products from Oculus
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Oculus. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Oculus, which was £327.33 of the 3 products we found. So OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Oculus was £189 with the most expensive coming in at £399.
Prices of products from Oculus and in the Virtual Reality category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Oculus that sit specifically within the Virtual Reality category.
For this we found that the average price was £327.33, making OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset at £394 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £399 with the lowest priced item being £189. In total there were 1 items that were more expensive and 1 that was less expensive.
Reviews of OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset
OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset scores 9.1/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset is.
Overall score
OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset scores 8.9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Oculus so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: OCULUS Rift S VR Gaming Headset
- Brand: Oculus
- Model Number: 10192914
- Full virtual reality experience at homeOver 1000 games and apps in the Oculus StoreSimple setup with no external sensorsIncludes controllers for Oculus RiftIntegrated VR sound system
- EAN: 815820020387
- Description: Immersive virtual reality with upgraded visuals Always wanted to try VR? Well here’s your chance. Explore new worlds and play games in a whole new way with the Oculus Rift S. It’s been upgraded from the original Rift, with improved optics so that what you see looks even better, with graphics that are brighter and more colourful. Pull the comfortable headset on and Oculus takes over, putting you in a fully 3D world. As you move around in real life, you move in the game too – so you can literally duck to dodge obstacles, or reach to grab something. Realistic gaming with accurate controllers But it’s not just the headset that’s tracked in your games. There’s two controllers included, so you can reload a laser gun with a realistic movement, control a steering wheel just like in real life, or learn how to box with Rocky – and it all feels as natural as possible. And because the Oculus Rift S has built-in speakers, the audio of your game literally surrounds you – if an enemy is approaching from the left you’ll know exactly where to shoot. Thousands of games and apps available to play Whether you want to take on fantasy sword fighting games, play around with robots, explore space, or just tackle puzzles in a 3D world – the Oculus game library has something for everyone. There are terrifying games that make you feel like you’re actually inside a horror film, as well as guided meditation experiences to help you calm down afterwards. And there’s even family friendly experiences, and educational games for the whole family to enjoy.
- Product ID: 23840483877
