{"id":9743,"date":"2017-01-05T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T10:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/can-oculus-rift-run-on-your-gaming-laptop\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:59:12","slug":"can-oculus-rift-run-on-your-gaming-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/can-oculus-rift-run-on-your-gaming-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Oculus Rift Run on Your Gaming Laptop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/104222707-gettyimages-612997084.1910x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Virtual reality is the future of gaming. That said, laptop manufacturers are taking the hint. They are starting to develop gaming laptops that can run virtual reality gears. Although VR gears like Rift and Vive are for PC, modern laptops can technically run these gears. But how?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">As long as they have the specifications given by the VR manufacturers, it is possible. Oculus released the complete specifications on their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/en-us\/blog\/the-rifts-recommended-spec-pc-sdk-0-6-released-and-mobile-vr-jam-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">official blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Oculus Rift Requirements:<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">NVIDIA GTX 970 \/ AMD 290 equivalent or greater<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">8GB+ RAM<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">2x USB 3.0 ports<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Windows 7 SP1 or newer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i><\/i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">There are already <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/category\/notebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">gaming laptops<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> in the market which can pass these specifications given by Oculus. For example, CyberPowerPC\u2019s Fangbook 4 SX7-VR500 which is already VR-ready, has a NVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u00ae GTX 1060 6GB PCIe video card and Intel\u00ae Core\u2122 Processor i7-6700HQ with 2.6GHz Turbo 3.5GHz 6MB Cache Processor CPU. It has a Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition) Operating System, Mobile Intel HM170 Mainboard, and 8GB (8GBx1) DDR4\/2133MHz SODIMM Memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">There is also the Vector-15 VR 600 Gaming Laptop which runs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">on<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> Intel\u00ae Core\u2122 Processor i7-6700HQ 2.6GHz with Turbo 3.5GHz 6MB Cache Processor. It has an Intel\u00ae HM170 Express Chipset Motherboard, an 8GB (8GBx1) DDR4\/2133MHz SODIMM Memory RAM, and NVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u00ae GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5, which makes it a VR-ready laptop to start with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">For those who are curious if they can upgrade their gaming laptop, there is also a NVIDIA GTX 970 has a mobile version in the market. Although this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that the VR game will run smoothly. So if you really want to play VR-games, then I suggest that you buy a new gaming laptop or a VR-ready gaming PC. To help with that, here are some of the best-selling VR-ready PCs and laptop from CyberPowerPC: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/category\/vr-ready\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">http:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/category\/vr-ready\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality is the future of gaming. That said, laptop manufacturers are taking the hint. They are starting to develop gaming laptops that can run virtual reality gears. Although VR gears like Rift and Vive are for PC, modern laptops can technically run these gears. But how? As long as they have the specifications given&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/can-oculus-rift-run-on-your-gaming-laptop\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Oculus Rift Run on Your Gaming Laptop?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2733,2742],"tags":[1225,2648,3008,2789,3509,3510,3511],"class_list":["post-9743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming-laptops","category-product-reviews","tag-gaming-laptop","tag-gaming-laptops","tag-oculus","tag-oculus-rift","tag-oculus-vr","tag-oculus-vr-on-gaming-laptop","tag-vr-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15994,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions\/15994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}