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Cyber Monday Oculus Store Discounts Include Quest 2 Games, Bundles
Cyber Monday is here and there’s a bunch of sales on the Oculus Store for Quest, running for one day only.
Similar to the Black Friday sales, there’s a mixture of single-game sales and bundle sales. However, unlike Black Friday sales, these Cyber Monday deals only last for one day, available now (from 12am PT November 29) until 11:59pm PT later this evening. If you want to pull the trigger on anything, you better get in quick.
There’s two Cyber Monday bundles available. The Cyber Simulation Pack includes Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator and Floor Plan 2 for $49.99, a discount of 33% from the regular combined price of $74.97.
The other bundle is the Quest Essentials Pack, which includes Eleven Table Tennis, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted, The Climb and In Death: Unchained for $69.99, down 35% from a regular combined price of $109.96.
In terms of single-game sales, there’s a variety of new and older releases with discounts as high as 40%. It’s a different selection than what was on offer last week for Black Friday — here are some of the highlights we found:
– Onward for $14.99 (down 40% from $24.99)
– Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister for $20.99 (down 30% from $29.99)
– Kingspray Graffiti for $8.99 (down 40% from $14.99)
– Phantom: Covert Ops for $20.99 (down 30% from $29.99)
– Arcsmith for $15.99 (down 36% from $24.99)
– Swords of Gargantua for $14.99 (down 40% from $24.99)
– Lies Beneath for $17.99 (down 40% from $29.99)
– Carve Snowboarding for $13.99 (down 30% from $19.99)
– Path of the Warrior for $11.99 (down 40% from $19.99)
– Chess Club for $10.49 (down 30% from $14.99)
– Tetris Effect: Connected for $17.99 (down 40% from $29.99)
– Cubism for $6.99 (down 30% from $9.99)
– Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife for $17.99 (down 40% from $29.99)
You can view the full list of discounted games over on the Cyber Monday section of the Oculus Store.
What will you be picking up this Cyber Monday? Let us know in the comments below.
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Black Friday VR Deals: Quest 2, PSVR, HTC Vive & More
Looking for a VR bargain this holiday season? We’ve got all the biggest Black Friday deals for VR headsets and games in one place.
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With VR growing to bigger heights than ever this year, there’s some fantastic VR deals this Black Friday, spanning hardware, headsets, games and accessories.
Here are all the best deals in one place. Keep checking back too — we’ll be updating this piece across the week as more deals emerge.
Black Friday – VR Hardware
Meta Quest 2 Black Friday Deals
As previously reported, Meta is running a new Black Friday promotion in the US through externals retailers and oculus.com this year, which gives you $50 credit with any Quest 2 purchase from now through November 29.
At partnered retailers, such as Amazon, you’ll receive a $50 gift card for that retailer with any Quest 2 purchase. If you buy a Quest 2 directly from oculus.com, you’ll receive $50 Oculus Store credit to spend on games and apps for your new headset.
HTC Vive Headset Black Friday Deals
HTC are also offering Cyber Week and Black Friday deals, discounting PC VR headsets bought directly from Vive.com.
These deals are live in select markets, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and others — check Vive’s site to see if your region is included. The selection of deals available does seem to vary slightly per region.
The full Vive Cosmos set, including headset with inside-out tracking and two controllers, is discounted for UK customers, available for £499. This is down from £699, saving £200 (bear in mind, it’s not a standalone headset — you’ll still need a VR-ready PC to connect to).
The Vive Cosmos Elite Headset (headset-only — tracking equipment, controllers and VR-ready PC not included) is available in the US/UK for $399/£399 respectively. This is down from $/£549, saving $/£150.
The Cosmos Elite kit, with external tracking equipment and Vive wand controllers included, is available in the US/UK for $649/£649, down from $/£899 and saving $/£250.
Meanwhile the Vive Pro full kit (headset, Vive wands, base stations) is available for £919 in the UK and $899 in the US (saving $300/£200). The Vive Pro Eye full kit is also discounted down to $1099/£1099 (saving $300/£200).
The deals run until November 29 and are available directly on HTC Vive’s site.
HP Reverb G2 Headset Black Friday Deals
The HP Reverb G2 is also available at a discounted price direct from HP from $549, saving you $50. This is the newest version of the headset, refreshed in 2021 with better tracking.
There’s also another, more significant Black Friday discount for the headset, available for $449.99 from Microsoft. However, we cannot guarantee this is the newest version of the headset, as the listing doesn’t specify.
The Reverb G2 usually runs for around $600, so this is a pretty decent $150 discount off the regular price. But given the latest model is meant to improve tracking volume by around 30%, you might be better off taking the $50 discount instead. You can read more about that here.
Black Friday – VR Games
PSVR Games Black Friday Deals
There’s only a few PSVR games in the PlayStation Store’s Black Friday sale.
Skyrim VR is available at a 67% discount, bringing it down to just $19.79 from $59.99. Likewise, Sniper Elite VR is available for just $17.99, down 40% from $29.99.
Tetris Effect: Connected is discounted by 60%, bringing it to $15.99 from $39.99.
Paper Beast is also down to just $8.99, 70% off its original $29.99 price. Rez Infinite is similarly down 70%, available for $8.99.
You can check out all the PlayStation Store game deals here.
Meta Quest 2 Games – Black Friday Deals
A bunch of Quest games are on sale for Black Friday, both singularly and as part of bundles. You can check out a list of what’s on offer here.
PC VR Games – Black Friday Deals
The Steam Autumn Sale has a number of VR games heavily discounted across the weekend, including Half-Life: Alyx at 50% off — the biggest discount in the game’s history.
You can read more about those deals here.
Black Friday – VR Accessories
VR Cover Black Friday Deals
If you’re looking for any VR accessories this Black Friday, then VR Cover is a great option. Not only do they have accessories ranging from controller grips, facial interfaces, headstrap replacements and more across the major VR headsets, but they also have considerable discounts across most of their range.
You can check out the full list of VR Cover deals for this Black Friday here.
Protube VR Black Friday Deals
Protube VR have been making magnetic stock rifles for VR headsets for a while now. This Black Friday they’re discounting a bunch of products including their ProStrap Grips, Starter Gun Stocks and the Magtube Gun Stock.
Sadly the Forcetube haptic add-on for the Magtube stock (which we reviewed last month) isn’t included in the Black Friday deals. However, a lot of other items are discounted by 20-30%, so it might be worth checking out anyway.
You can browse all the Protube Black Friday deals here.
What will you be picking up this Black Friday? Know of any deals that we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments.
Note: First published November 22, updated November 25 to add more deals.
Oculus Cyber Monday Deals Include Big Quest 2 Game Discounts
Oculus Cyber Monday deals are now live for Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 games, with both bundle and individual game sales including titles like Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted, Vader Immortal and In Death: Unchained.
There are 3 bundles and then a few individual sales, with savings ranging from around 15-40% off.
The “Essentials Pack” includes Job Simulator, Trover Saves the Universe, Waltz of the Wizard, Gun Club VR, Please, Don’t Touch Anything and Death Horizon: Reloaded for $79.99. That’s 26% off, down from a total of $109.94 when bought together at full price.
The “Epic Pack” is a bit smaller, including Eleven Table Tennis, Thrill of the Fight, Richie’s Plank Experience and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes for $44.99. That’s a discount of 24%, down from what would normally be a combined price of $59.96.
There’s also the Vader Immortal pack, which includes all three episodes of Vader Immortal for $19.99, a discount of 33% down from $29.97.
In terms of individual apps, the following are on sale:
– Angry Birds: 30% off, $10.49 (from $14.99)
– Arizona Sunshine: 20% off, $31.99 (from $39.99)
– Creed: Rise to Glory: 30% off, $20.99 (from $29.99)
– Espire 1: VR Operative: 15% off, $25.49 (from $29.99)
– FitXR: 25% off, $22.49 (from $29.99)
– Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted: 20% off, $23.99 (from $29.99)
– In Death: Unchained: 20% off, $23.99 (from $29.99)
– Mini Motor X Racing: 25% off, $18.47 (from $24.99)
– OrbusVR: Reborn: 25% off, $14.99 (from $19.99)
– Sports Scramble: 25% off, $22.49 (from $29.99)
– The Room VR: 20% off, $23.99 (from $29.99)
– Tokyo Chronos: 40% off, $23.99 (from $39.99)
– Trover Saves the Universe: 20% off , $23.99 (from $29.99)
– Wander: 20% off, $7.99 (from $9.99)
The sales started yesterday, right when many of the Black Friday sales ended. These Cyber Monday sales will run for just over 24 hours, until 11:59pm PST tomorrow, November 30.
If you want to check out other Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, be sure to check out our post detailing all of the major VR deals this year, some of which are still running.
Editorial: Facebook’s Worst VR Headset Won Cyber Monday And It Is Giving Us A Headache
Oculus Go on Monday shot to #3 on the best Amazon Best Sellers list across all video games.
The entry level VR headset was helped by a lightning deal that saw the all-in-one VR system priced at just $120 for a limited time, down from a broader discount — priced at $150 — that lasted several days across multiple retailers. Released in 2018, Oculus Go was the first standalone VR headset from Facebook and it has been typically priced around $200 since it debuted. You can read our full review for our assessment at the time it released.
Now plenty of readers probably already skipped to the comments to complain that I called Oculus Go “Facebook’s Worst VR Headset” to defend its idealized use cases in bed or on plane flights. True, the device may find repeated and regular usage among a subset of buyers who want a private 3D media viewer and nothing more, and Oculus Go removes the dust-behind-the lenses and phone-draining-battery issues which plagued the even earlier Gear VR.
For Facebook, Oculus Go was a necessary and intriguing step forward in a play toward mainstream VR, but it is also an older gadget offered alongside more capable hardware that confuses buyers and gives plenty of people headaches. Its 3 degrees of freedom — meaning it tracks head rotation movement only while ignoring even the slightest shifting of your head’s position — can make some people uncomfortable far too quickly.
Perhaps most damning, though, is that Facebook deactivated built-in social features on the headset recently in advance of Facebook Horizon’s launch early next year. We don’t even know if Horizon will run on Go yet — Facebook only lists support for Quest and Rift on its official Horizon page. This is what people see if they try using the Oculus Rooms social feature that’s still listed on the Oculus Store:
Read this tragic review of Oculus Rooms posted on October 9 and found helpful by 22 people:
I have a Go. I only want a Go. I’m old enough where it was enough for me to listen to good jazz, sit and watch the city nights from my penthouse and sip a nice drink. It was good to unwind. I don’t want this social crap they have with this new platform, and I think it was a really low blow to just steal this from me. The art on my walls all had meaning. One of the paintings was from an artist friend of mine that passed in August. I liked my rug, and the floors. It was a nice little space of pure solace. It was one of the major things that kept me using my Oculus. I can do almost everything else like watching movies from my desktop. Not happy.
And there are these comments spotted on an ad on Facebook:
By all appearances Facebook is clearing out Oculus Go stock and moving its focus to the $400 Quest and the upcoming Facebook Horizon social app. Many Oculus Go games were brought over to Quest recently and the Oculus Link Beta mode converts Facebook’s higher end standalone into a wired PC VR headset. Early next year, Quest will also get an experimental hand tracking mode as well that’ll allow its system functions to be controlled with open air hand gestures.
To be clear, the reason this is giving us headaches is that we highly doubt many first time VR buyers — the kind of people who are likely picking up Oculus Go — are fully aware of its severe limitations before purchasing. While people like consulting CTO John Carmack insist that Go retains users better than previous headsets we still believe many of these devices collect dust when purchased by people who don’t know what they are getting before they buy it. And still more of these headsets will collect dust now that certain features don’t work and the focus is shifting to other systems.
I should add that we believe it likely future versions of Oculus Go will solve many of the complaints listed here and it was, again, both a remarkable device for its time as well as a niche-filling gadget that may be loved by some of the people who purchase it. But Go is enough of a let down to anyone who thought they could play incredible (and well-advertised) games like Beat Saber or Vader Immortal on it, or could use its one big feature in Rooms, that we hope the device is retired fairly soon so those headaches can become a memory of the past rather than a Christmas Day surprise in 2019.
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Oculus Cyber Monday Sale Brings Big Savings to Rift & Quest Game Bundles
Black Friday may be gone, but Cyber Monday has arrived to give you one last chance at nabbing some big savings on a number of Oculus platform titles, with bundled game deals topping out at 50% off for Rift and Quest.
The sale is active until December 2nd at 11:59PM PT (local time here), and includes a number of ‘Essential’ bundles for both Oculus Rift and Quest.
Some—but not all games below—feature cross-buy between Rift and Quest, although it seems to be such a toss up that you’d be better off searching for sale items on their own. That may not be such an issue if you own a Quest and a VR-ready PC, as you can now play Rift games on Quest thanks to Oculus Link.
Thankfully Oculus bundles benefit from flexible bundle pricing too, so if you already own a game in the list it should be automatically deducted from the total price.
Without further ado, here’s a look at what the Oculus Store is offering up this Cyber Monday:
Rift Grand Essentials ($60 $122):
- The Climb
- Onward
- Defector
- Job Simulator
- GORN
- Seeking Dawn
Quest Action Essentials ($90 $110)
- SUPERHOT VR
- Sairento VR
- Untethered
- Creed: Rise to Glory
- Drunkn Bar Fight
- Ninja Legends
Quest Arcade Essentials ($65 $85)
- Space Pirate Trainer
- Thumper
- Fruit Ninja
- Acron: Attack of the Squirrels
- Pinball FX2 VR
Quest Multiplayer Essentials ($100 $135)
- Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR
- Drop Dead: Dual Strike Edition
- Dance Central
- Sports Scramble
- OrbusVR: Reborn
Quest Oculus Originals Essentials ($95 $120)
- Robo Recall: Unplugged
- Shadow Point
- Dead and Buried II
- Face Your Fears 2
- Journey of the Gods
Quest Fitness Essentials ($90 $110)
- BOXVR
- Dance Central
- Creed: Rise to Glory
- Knockout League
If you’re looking for a particular title, make sure to keep an eye on both the Rift Sale and Quest Sale sections of the store.
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Oculus Go Is Just $120 In Amazon Cyber Monday Deal
Facebook’s Oculus Go budget VR headset is just $120 today on Amazon USA for Cyber Monday.
The Oculus Go is a low end standalone headset designed with affordability as its core goal. It launched in May 2018 for $200. Standalone means it doesn’t require a PC or phone to operate (however you do need a phone for first time setup).
According to Facebook, Go is typically used for media consumption, such as watching Netflix on a virtual big TV or viewing immersive 360 degree videos from platforms such as YouTube.
Go was also marketed as a social VR device when it launched, but in October Facebook retired Go’s social features and has no plans to replace them. However, third party social apps such as Bigscreen, AltspaceVR and vTime are still available.
A Very Limited Form Of VR
The Oculus Go has a major limitation that no other major VR headset has; it can only track the rotation of your head, not the position. This means the world feels locked to your head when you lean forward, backward, or to the side. This isn’t particularly comfortable and can make some people feel sick.
The controller (and there is only one, not two) also has the same limitation. This means it acts as more of a laser pointer than actually having your hands in VR.
These limitations mean that Go cannot play the kinds of games and apps that Facebook’s higher end Oculus Quest standalone headset, which has positional tracking and Touch controllers, can play. You can’t play Beat Saber, or Job Simulator, or SUPERHOT, or Tilt Brush, or Vader Immortal, or any other major VR content on this headset.
Additionally, we have reason to believe that Facebook may be planning a successor to Go in the future, though we don’t expect this would arrive until around 2021.
So while $120 is the lowest we’ve ever seen the Oculus Go sold for, we don’t recommend it unless you’re aware that this is more of a portable personal cinema and 360 degree video viewer than a “true” VR headset.
But if a media viewer is what you’re looking for, there’s arguably no better headset at no better price than Go at $120.
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Oculus Continues the Game Deals Into Cyber Monday
If Black Friday hasn’t already rinsed your bank account and you’ve managed to restrain your spending then there are still more deals to be had this Cyber Monday. Oculus had a bunch of Black Friday deals on its store for Rift S and Quest and today there are a load of new ones if you missed out the first time.
Most of these deals are bundle packages designed to make it easier to find videogames you like, split across various genres. On the Oculus Quest portion of the store there are four bundles to choose from:
- Action Essentials – £69.99 – Saving 15%
- Fitness Essentials – £69.99 – Saving 16%
- Oculus Originals Essentials – £74.27 – Saving 18%
- Multiplayer Essentials – £79.99 – Saving 21%
As with any of Oculus’ bundles if you already own one or more of the titles featured then the store will automatically deduct them from the final price – so you’re not paying for a videogame twice. So you’ll still get a discount but you’ll need to check your own individual store.
There are even a few singular titles on sale including Bonfire, Half + Half, Ballista, Please Don’t Touch Anything and Ocean Rift.
The same goes for Oculus Rift S. The tethered headset has a much bigger selection of titles to choose from, offering the following bundles:
- Rift Grand Essentials – £44.99 – Saving 51%
- Oculus Originals Essentials – £74.27 – Saving 18%
- Action Essentials – £69.99 – Saving 7%
- Multiplayer Essentials – £79.99 – Saving 21%
- Arcade Essentials – £50.48 – Saving 19%
- Fitness Essentials – £69.99 – Saving 13%
Notable single experiences on sale include Superhot VR, Arizona Sunshine, Onward, Seeking Dawn, Red Matter, Trover Saves the Universe, Final Assault and Battlewake.
Also worth remembering if you have an Oculus Quest. Thanks to Oculus Link all these videogames can be played on the portable headset via a compatible PC and suitable USB to USB-C cable. Double-check whether your PC is compatible with Oculus Link beta because only certain GPU’s are supported currently.
VRFocus will continue its coverage of the latest virtual reality (VR) deals and offers, reporting back with the best savings.