When Oculus upgraded its system software to Rift Core 2.0, currently in beta, it added a redesigned Home experience, multitasking for apps and windows in Dash a…
When Oculus upgraded its system software to Rift Core 2.0, currently in beta, it added a redesigned Home experience, multitasking for apps and windows in Dash and mirrored Oculus Desktop monitors. These are heavy-resource features, according to Oculus, and need Windows 10 to support them. That’s why the company is recommending Windows 10 across the Oculus platform (Rift, Touch and core software). You can still use Windows 7 and 8.1, but you won’t get the new features as they appear.
In addition to the extra lifting power Windows 10 provides, Oculus points to Microsoft’s deprecated mainstream support for the earlier OS versions. Oculus says that 95 percent of the most active Rift owners are already using Windows 10, and that those not yet upgraded do so soon. There’s a compatibility tool to check and see if your PC is up to snuff, too. The full minimum and recommended specs are below:
Recommended Specifications:
Minimum Specifications: