You can now pick up an Oculus Rift in the UK for £549 from GAME, John Lewis, Amazon and Currys PC World.

As well as throwing down for the headset itself, you’ll also need a PC capable of supporting it.

Recommended specs for a PC needed to run an Oculus Rift are: an Intel i5-4590 CPU, an Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 video card, at least 8GB of RAM, an HDMI 1.3 output, three USB 3.0 ports and one USB 2.0 port.

All Oculus Rifts come bundled with a copy of Lucky’s Tale, a cartoon platformer which seems like a weirdly anachronistic choice for a future gaming system. Any early adopters wanting to play something a bit more immersive like The Assembly or Windlands can pick these titles up on the cheap in a sale which (rather conveniently) ends today.

If you don’t yet have that kind of cash lying around, but you’re definitely going to get one or you’re just curious, you’ll also be able to arrange to have a demo at a number of high street locations across the UK.

According to the map on Oculus’s site, it looks like demos are taking place in London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Leicester, Nottingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow. Oculus says that ‘new locations will be added every week,’ though it hasn’t released an exhaustive list of locations where demos will be available. If you're really that committed, it might be a case of routinely entering your postcode and going on a road trip.