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Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Seeks Kickstarter Funding

Oculus Rift virtual reality glasses gets support of John Carmack and is supposed to be awesome.

Aug 1 2012, 9:59am CDT | by

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There have been virtual reality glasses for decades. They all failed on the consumer market. Now Oculus Rift is supposed to change that. It has a huge field of view and no lag. Gaming industry...

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Oculus Rift Makes Virtual Reality a Shared Group Experience

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This is a pretty funny Oculus Rift demo which illustrates a very important point about the VR technology -- it's at its best as a group experience. Watch: I don't just mean "group" in the sense of several people ex ...
Full article at: New World Notes  More like this  13 hours ago, 12:35pm CDT

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"Actually I didn't even think AR was very interesting at first ... But as I started seeing the potential for all these brand new game experiences that you could have, I'm very passionate about AR, and am putting all my effort into AR."


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Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Seeks Kickstarter Funding

There have been virtual reality glasses for decades. They all failed on the consumer market. Now Oculus Rift is supposed to change that. It has a huge field of view and no lag. Gaming industry heavyweights including John Carmack think Oculus Rift has a chance. 

The project is now raising money and handing out Oculus Rift developer kits. The goal is $250,000. Watch the Kickstarter video presentation of Oculus Rift below.

Support Oculus Rift now on Kickstarter.

 

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