- Buy the Oculus Rift S
Our quick take
Oculus Rift S - 4.5 / 5
Design changes and enhancements
- Five inside-out tracking sensors Updated Halo headband design Integrated backwards-firing speakers Updated controller design to support inside-out tracking
A better fit
No more tracking stations
Improved visuals and gaming comfort
- 2560 x 1440 display resolution via a single fast-switch LCD screen 80Hz refresh rate with Asynchronous Spacewarp technology for comfort 5-metre cable Passthrough+ boundary system Six degrees of freedom hand and head tracking with Oculus Insight technology
Higher res, lower refresh
PC spec requirements
- PC/laptop running Windows 10 or greater Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater CPU: Intel i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater Memory: 8GB of RAM Video Output: DisplayPort 1.2 source, Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Adapter (with mDP to DP adapter that is included in box) USB Port: 1x USB 3.0 Port
Virtual passthrough
Bring your own headset
A focus on content and accessibility
- Best Oculus Rift and Oculus Rift S games and experiences available
To recap
The Oculus Rift S brings some welcome enhancements to the already brilliant VR system from Oculus, making for a freer experience with fewer cables. There’s plenty to enjoy with this new headset, too, with the lack of true wireless and no USB-C headphones port being the only real downsides we see here.
