The Valve-supported HTC Vive has today gone up for pre-ordering, but for a much higher price than its most well-known rival the Oculus Rift.

While they differ from region to region, the price of the Vive is above the Oculus’ new Rift headset which has been taking pre-orders for a little while now. For the US, including postage and all that other stuff that isn’t the price of the device alone the Vive will cost $829; the UK has the price set at £746.60 and the EU prices are somewhere around €972. This does mean that effectively the UK and Europe are having to pay a lot more for their tech than the US. It’s also far out matched by the Rift’s $599 price tag.

The Vive will come with the headset, some controllers to detect hand motions and three apps – Fantastic Contraption, Job Simulator and Google’s Tilt Brush drawing program; so there are some things there to justify it being more expensive than the Oculus is. The fact that Oculus were bought out by Facebook probably helps them keep the price down as well.

Either way, if you’ve got a lot of money to blow and would like to give the Vive a go, head over to the pre-ordering page.