well Zips, that's one big slap across my face!
I wonder if valve will step it down with HTC Vive. They can make it 500$ and still profit a lot with it, just by being a little cheaper they could convince a lot of people to get it instead of the Oculus rift.

Holy jesus... this comes from the company who said they wanted to make as VR affordable as possible, who I believe even said once they would offer virtual reality if they could.
mAn, buying a PC that handles Oculus Rift is cheaper than buying the headset itself!

Edit: The European price is 699€. Not only is the € higher than the US $, our salaries are smaller(at least for portuguese plebs), and your stuff is always cheaper, and you always get the greatest promotions, gee the world is unfair. How do they translate 599$ to 699€? Not to mention the shipping wich is 42€, so in total the oculus rift in europe is nearly around 800$

A large part of Canada may be sitting this one out too, given their dollar is about as weak as the Singapore Dollar, and then there's both shipping AND duties to pay. Fun for those neighbors up north. As for the HTC Vive, jimykx I'm afraid the answer is a flat out no. It's automatically more expensive given how much more equipment is involved to include full body tracking, whereas the Oculus has limited head tracking. I even suspect games like Hover Junkers won't work on it, because their tracking isn't enough to allow you to physically move (or crouch low enough). With the HTC Vive, you not only need custom made controllers (or rather they're forcing you to buy it), but you also need at least two transmitters to track where you are.

I imagine the HTC Vive will be upwards of $800 USD. I find over $1,000 USD to be understandable even, depending on how restrictive the market is, regarding people with enough space to use such a thing (while Hover Junkers can be played with you literally standing and crouching without any walking, I doubt people would want to buy this technology to not move around). So the next question is, when will we see people modding the Oculus Rift to work with Kinect to have body angle and positional tracking? I'm guessing it would be done through custom made software injecting into existing VR apps/games (without setting off virus scanners)? We already know Kinect can do motion capturing (and I mean the FIRST generation, so the Xbox One's Kinect is even better in that regard), so I'd like to think people can cheap out by combining the Kinect with the Oculus Rift and pass on the HTC Vive. But that'll take time, and it'll be difficult to setup.

Short answer is, bummer to hear that it's $600 (though Zips is dead-on for assuming this would be over $500), and there is no way the HTC Vive will be cheaper. If it is, I guarantee you HTC and VALVe are selling it at a loss (or rather the gains would be so minimal that they'll take ages to break even), since it's marketed as a premium item. Like a seafood and steak dinner.