Where's the best place to buy a Valve Index VR headset?

Best answer: There is simply one place to buy the Valve Index and that's at the Steam Store. There are a lot of bundles to choose from, only they all have to be bought through Steams own store.

The full kit: Valve Index VR kit ($1,000 at the Steam Shop)
But the headset: Valve Index ($500 at the Steam Shop)

The new reference for Valve VR

When Valve decided to make its ain VR hardware they really swung for the fences. The Valve Index is a supremely high-end headset with a plethora of features that should assist it exist a cut above the balance.

The Index has custom made lenses to help focus on the dual 1440x1600 RGB LCDs, and those LCDs can run at a staggering 144MHZ. All the work they accept done is to reduce Screen-Door Consequence, increase your Field of View, and make the screen equally immersive every bit possible.

Added to that Valve has created a new off-ear headphone organization it says volition help aid in immersion and allow you lot to play for longer periods of time. Yous can tell they have spent a lot of time making you feel good on the inside.

Non but have they worked on what you feel on the within of the headset, but they have also added cool features such as an expandable USB iii blazon-A socket on the forepart. This volition allow third-political party developers to create absurd peripherals that we may never have seen earlier. When you lot add together the cameras to enable video pass-through, the Index is shaping up to be a powerhouse in VR gadgetry.

Where can we preorder the Alphabetize from?

The Index is Valves crowning achievement and as such, they are keeping the preorder shut to home. At the moment you will but be able to preorder the Index from the Steam Store itself. No other preorder locations have been made available. Perhaps later on the release, they may allow other vendors to sell it, simply right now it'south the Steam Store or bust.

Happily, y'all can preorder the Alphabetize in parts. If y'all already own a Rift or Vive, you may already own the Base Stations and controllers. In that case, y'all just need to pick up the headset on its own. Valve has fabricated all the components backward compatible with those accessories and all of them are available individually.

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Valve swinging for the fence

Valve is trying to show the world what it thinks a VR headset should be. Will it succeed? Probably. Valve is very good at succeeding, but that price is even so a little steep