It also includes an Xbox One controller, the wireless adapter to connect it to a PC and the Oculus Remote for simplified input.

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will be getting over 100 games by the end of this year, according to creator Luckey.

The company, which was bought by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion, says the headsets will come with two video games, "Lucky's Tale" by Playful and CCP's "EVE: Valkyrie".

The Oculus Rift headset will cost $900 for Kiwis.

Preordered Oculus Rift units will start shipping in March.

The company also reported that Oculus Ready PCs will be certified to meet recommended system specifications; bundles that include an Oculus Ready PC and a Rift will be available for preorder in February starting at $1,499.

But people aren't very excited about the price tag.

Oculus also had a thank you gift for its early Kickstarter backers on Wednesday: a free Rift headset. Medical training, travel marketing, construction and design are other areas where virtual reality promises great potential, and a number of organizations have already been experimenting with such technologies, he said.

Owners of the Oculus Rift DK2 headset will be able to register their interest in the testing program here. "When we shop online, we're using abstractions (menus and hierarchies) that are very different from actually walking down the aisle of a store. There are a lot of mainstream devices in that price-range, so as you have said, our failing was in communication, not just price".