Oculus still hasn't announced a launch date for its Rift virtual reality headset, but now we know when preorders are opening: this Wednesday, January 6th, at 11AM ET. The news appeared in-a blog post this morning, and co-founder Palmer Luckey will answer more questions in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday at 9PM ET. Luckey said a few weeks ago that preorders-would open "soon after [the] new year." A motion controller called the Oculus Touch was originally supposed to follow the Rift in the first half of 2016, but that-was recently delayed in order to focus on improving its ergonomics and tracking accuracy.



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