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Alienware will launch a PC later this year that will come bundled with Oculus Rift using older PC hardware to make Virtual Reality a market hit. Together they will be available at a discounted price said an executive from Dell. Alienware co-founder, Frank Azor, revealed at a dinner that Alienware will pair the Area 51 gamer PC and Rift Virtual Reality headset for $1600. This means individually, the computer will cost $1000 and VR headset will be available for $600. "We believe in this and want to make it a success," Azor said. Alienware machines that are sold currently cost way more than that. However, Azor said that the low-priced gamer pc available at $1000 will most likely pass the certification to be able to run VR properly, reported Venture Beat

Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR, chimed in with Azor at a press dinner at the international CES 2016. "Virtual reality is at its infancy," Luckey said. "Virtual reality is going to be going very fast over the next year and the next decade." However, it is not going to be so easy. According to Nvidia, VR takes seven times more graphics processing power than a normal PC game. Luckey added that VR was so demanding because the graphics card has to condense a 3D image for each eye and runs at 90 frames per second. If it is any slower than this, people may start to feel motion sickness. "All of a sudden, a huge number of people are going to want a high end PC," Luckey said, as reported by Tech Times.

Although nothing is confirmed yet and some details might be changed, the only thing that will remain unchanged is that Dell's Oculus PC bundles will be priced at $1600, said Tom's Hardware