Oculus Rift - Wikipedia
The first prototype of the Oculus Rift was created in 2011 by Palmer Luckey (then 18 years old) in his parents’ garage in Long Beach, California. [8] Luckey had been building his own virtual reality headsets since 2009, but the 2011 prototype was the first to incorporate key technologies like geometric pre-distortion and a wide stereoscopic ...
How Palmer Luckey Created Oculus Rift | Smithsonian
Just days before, the three video game industry veterans had agreed to found a company with Luckey to develop a device he called the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that had been lauded as...
The First Look at the New Oculus VR Prototype
Jan 7, 2014 · Every time virtual-reality company Oculus brings a prototype of its Rift headset to a show, it takes another big step forward. And the protoype at this year’s CES may be the biggest leap yet.
The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became ... - WIRED
May 20, 2014 · Oculus’ flagship product, the Rift, was widely seen as the most promising VR device in years, enveloping users in an all-encompassing simulacrum that felt like something out of Snow Crash or...
How the Oculus Rift Works - HowStuffWorks
Carmack was working on a VR project and requested a prototype. He used the Rift prototype with his own firmware to demonstrate his VR game "Doom 3 BFG" at E3 2012, and that started the hype for the Oculus Rift.
The Story of Oculus Rift | Vanity Fair
Sep 8, 2015 · Mark Zuckerberg made a $2 billion bet on a virtual-reality headset called the Oculus Rift, brainchild of 22-year-old Palmer Luckey, who sold his Kickstarter-funded breakthrough to Facebook this...
The inside story of the Oculus Rift, VR's singularity moment
Jul 3, 2014 · At Oculus, Patel helped design the brain of the Rift, a tracker that sampled motion data so quickly that Oculus could use algorithms to predict a player's head movements and pre-render images ...
Palmer Luckey interview: The new Oculus Rift prototype and the …
Jan 15, 2014 · He'd been in town for eight days, talking to the press and showing the newest Oculus Rift prototype, dubbed " Crystal Cove ." The newest headset uses 360 degree positional tracking and low...
Hands-on: Oculus Rift "Crystal Cove" prototype - New Atlas
Jan 10, 2014 · But when you strap on Oculus Rift's virtual reality headset, you realize that it's something truly different. Read on, as Gizmag goes heads-on with Oculus Rift's latest prototype,...
How Oculus Rift Was Created - CitizenSide
Dec 5, 2023 · Through a combination of technical expertise and his relentless pursuit of innovation, Luckey gradually built a prototype that would become the foundation for the Oculus Rift headset. However, Luckey knew that he couldn’t bring his vision to life alone.