About Oculus VR
Founded by Palmer Luckey, virtual reality enthusiast and hardware geek, Oculus VR® launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund development of their first product, the Oculus Rift, a ground-breaking virtual reality headset for immersive gaming. With the support of top video game companies including Valve, Epic Games and Unity, the Kickstarter was an enormous success, raising over $2.4 million in funding from project backers and supporters around the world. For those who might have missed some details, here is their story so far
Early Days
Throughout the late 80s and 90s, dozens of companies tried to turn VR headsets into commercial success. All of them failed — hard. Some were too expensive; most just didn’t work worth a damn.
Around the age of 15, Palmer Luckey started to fall in love with the concept of virtual reality. If there is anything that videogames have taught gamers to love, it's collecting things - the rarer, the better Read More...
Around the age of 15, Palmer Luckey started to fall in love with the concept of virtual reality. If there is anything that videogames have taught gamers to love, it's collecting things - the rarer, the better Read More...
Becoming a Company
You never know who you’re going to meet wandering around the Internet. Lurking around yet another forum, Palmer found himself chatting with John Carmack — the John Carmack. As in, co-founder of id Software; the lead programmer of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Quake. When it comes to gaming giants, most of’em sit comfortably within Carmack’s shadow. A few months later, Carmack was at E3 demonstrating one of Luckey’s prototypes Read More...
Kickstarter
When Palmer first started thinking about Kickstarting a virtual reality headset — long before he met Carmack, long before he ever formed a company — he hoped he’d get 100 or so enthusiasts to back his project. Then came the endorsements from Carmack. Other industry titans, like Gabe Newell of Valve, threw their support behind the project.
On August 1st of 2012, Oculus launched their Kickstarter campaign
Within 24 hours, they’d raised $670,000 from 2,750 people.
Within three days, they’d broken a million dollars.
On August 1st of 2012, Oculus launched their Kickstarter campaign
Within 24 hours, they’d raised $670,000 from 2,750 people.
Within three days, they’d broken a million dollars.
Source: www.techchrunch.com