Valve Index shall be accessible in Australia from August

For a premium expertise, the Valve Index is the most effective VR headset on the market, however Australians have needed to undergo the trouble of importing one because it launched again in 2019. That’s about to alter: EB Video games will lastly inventory the Valve Index come August 18, with pre-orders now accessible.
For the total Valve Index VR equipment you’ll spend AU$1,899.95: that features the headset, two Index controllers and two base stations. However you should buy these piecemeal too, with the headset alone going for AU$999.95, a base station going for AU$249.95, and a two controller pack going for AU$499.95. If you need the headset and controllers with no base station, that’ll be AU$1,499.95. Relying what you’re shopping for, pre-order deposits vary AU$200 for the total equipment, by means of to AU$50 for a single base station or controller pack.
Since 2019 the Valve Index hasn’t been accessible to buy by means of Steam for Australians, although it’s been attainable to undergo loads of rigmarole to get one anyway: this Reddit thread from 2019 relates the expertise, which required the usage of a US-based parcel forwarding course of. In the meantime, third-party sellers on Amazon have been asking as much as AU$2,600 for the total equipment.
Whereas the Oculus Quest 2 is these days our decide for the finest VR headset, the Valve Index is available in a really shut second, and has “finest in school {hardware}.”