Oculus Rift has announced it will partner with PC manufacturers to release a line of “Oculus Ready” PCs.

Revealed at the Oculus conference over the weekend, “Oculus Ready” is a sticker PC manufacturers will attach to hardware that has the correct specifications for VR.

“Our goal with the recommended specs is that everything just works,” said Oculus head of product Nat Mitchell.

NVIDIA, ASUS, Alienware, Dell, AMD, and Intel will all be bringing out Oculus Ready PCs next year, the cheapest of which are expected to cost less than US$1000.

The Oculus keynote contained many other announcements about the VR headset and related content.

A trailer revealed a release window of Q2 2016 for the Oculus Touch, Oculus’s unique controller system, and a partnership between Oculus and several streaming apps including Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo and Hulu was confirmed.

It was also announced that 505 Games' space exploration adventure Adrift will launch alongside the Oculus Rift in Q1 of next year.

Oculus head of product Nat Mitchell and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also explained the release strategy for the device, and warned that uptake could be slow.

"At the end of the day, I think that if you look at many of the most successful consumer hardware products of all time, most of them sold in the very low millions of units in their first year – especially new product categories, things like Kindle and iPod," Mitchell later told Gamasutra.

"They sold in the hundreds of thousands in their first generation.

"Price is going to be one of the biggest barriers to entry.”

The Oculus Rift doesn't yet have a price, however Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe stated earlier this year that the device and a suitable PC would cost no more than US$1500.