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81-623: The beta version of the Oculus Share website was first announced on August 19, 2013, to allow users to self-publish, discover, download, and play games and experiences. In 2015, following Oculus VR's acquisition by Facebook, Oculus Share was shut down and revamped as the Oculus Store for the consumer-facing Oculus Rift , including pre-approvals, sales taxes and comfort ratings. In addition, the company announced an investment of $ 10 million into indie game developers to distribute their games in

162-417: A groundskeeper , youth sailing coach, and computer repair technician. Luckey developed a series of prototypes exploring features like 3D stereoscopy, wireless, and extreme 270-degree field-of-view, while also decreasing the size and weight of his systems. He shared regular updates on his progress on MTBS3D, a forum frequented by a small number of virtual reality enthusiasts. He called his 6th-generation unit

243-547: A $ 100 million, co-funded design, development and manufacturing program for extra large autonomous undersea vehicles (XL-AUVs) for the Royal Australian Navy". In December 2022, Anduril raised around $ 1.5bn led by Valor Equity Partners, valuing the company at $ 8.5bn, including the new cash from the raise. In June 2024, ModRetro, founded by Luckey, released its first product, the ModRetro Chromatic,

324-539: A $ 200,000 camera rig to produce 360° 3D content for the Rift, including short films, as well as live streaming live events such as sports or concerts in 360° 3D. In July 2015, Oculus announced a deal with Canadian film company Felix & Paul Studios to produce 360° 3D videos for the Rift. The Rift also supports a new medium of entertainment experiences, which Oculus calls "virtual reality movies". Oculus has established Oculus Story Studio to develop this type of content for

405-420: A GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent graphics card, two USB 3.0 ports and one USB 2.0 port, and Windows 8 or newer. The company stated that these lower requirements were enabled by the adoption of motion interpolation ; on systems that cannot handle full 90 frames per second rendering, the drivers will allow software to render at 45 FPS instead, and generate frames based on differences between them to send to

486-652: A U.S. Army Research Laboratory effort to treat veterans suffering from PTSD. In 2009, when he was 16, he began building VR headsets of his own design. Existing head-mounted displays in the market suffered from low contrast and field-of-view, high latency and cost, and extreme bulk and weight. He completed his first prototype, called PR1, at age 17 in his parents' garage, which featured a 90-degree field of view, low latency, and built-in haptic feedback . Ultimately, he built more than 50 head-mounted displays. To fund these projects, he earned at least US$ 36,000 by fixing and reselling damaged iPhones and working part-time as

567-536: A combination of three-axis gyros , accelerometers , and magnetometers , which make it capable of absolute (relative to Earth) head orientation tracking without drift. The Development Kit 1 also included interchangeable lenses that aim to allow for simple dioptric correction . The entire source for the Rift DK1 was released to the public in September 2014, including the firmware, schematics, and mechanicals for

648-464: A combined total of $ 500 million in damages for copyright infringement related to the marketing of the Oculus Rift, with Luckey responsible for $ 50 million of the total. In June 2018, the judge overseeing the case dismissed all damages owed by Luckey and reduced the amount owed by other parties to $ 250 million. In September 2016, it was reported that Luckey had donated $ 10,000 to Nimble America,

729-626: A fundraiser for Donald Trump at his home in Lido Isle, Newport Beach , with the president in attendance. The fundraiser had tickets ranging from $ 2,800 per person to $ 150,000 per couple, and there were gatherings both for and against President Trump in Newport Beach outside during the event. On June 8, 2024, Luckey co-hosted another fundraiser for Trump at the home of health insurance company co-founder John Word, where donors spent up to $ 100,000 per person to attend. Luckey has donated to

810-461: A handheld retrogaming device capable of playing original games designed for Game Boy , developed by Nintendo , launched in 1989. In 2014, Luckey was described as "the face of virtual reality in gaming" and a celebrity among virtual reality enthusiasts; however, he does not consider himself to be a celebrity. He maintains a casual appearance, is frequently barefoot , and prefers sandals to shoes even at trade shows and events. In 2015, Luckey

891-512: A high[-]quality consumer-level VR experience"; support for Linux and macOS will be developed in the future. A hardware testing application is available, and Oculus VR has also certified and promoted specific models of pre-built computers that meet these recommendations, from vendors such as Asus , Alienware and Dell Inc. , as being "Oculus Ready". On October 6, 2016, Oculus VR announced lessened hardware recommendations, now suggesting an Intel Core i3-6100 or AMD FX 4350 CPU, at least

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972-451: A new motion tracking system that utilized an external camera to track infrared dots located on the headset. The new motion tracking system would allow the system to detect actions such as leaning or crouching, which was claimed to help alleviate sickness experienced by users when the software did not respond to these actions. Oculus began shipping Development Kit 2 (DK2) in July 2014. This is

1053-399: A pro- Donald Trump group that ran a billboard depicting 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with the caption "Too Big to Jail". This caused a small number of developers to temporarily cancel plans to support Oculus, including Scruta Games, which announced it would cancel Oculus's support in their games unless Luckey stepped down. Tomorrow Today Labs said they would not support

1134-414: A prototype Oculus Rift. Carmack wrote a public review of the prototype calling it "by far the most immersive HMD " he had used, noting that the targeted price would also make it the cheapest. At the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo , Id Software gave demonstrations of their games running on the prototype Oculus Rift and announced that their newest game, Doom 3 BFG Edition , would be compatible with

1215-455: A small refinement of the "Crystal Cove" prototype, featuring several key improvements over the first development kit, such as having a higher-resolution (960×1080 per eye) low-persistence OLED display, higher refresh rate of 75   Hz, positional tracking, a detachable cable, and the omission of the need for the external control box. A teardown of DK2 revealed that it incorporates a modified Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone display, including

1296-483: A spherical-mapped image for each eye. Initial prototypes used a Hillcrest Labs 3DoF head tracker that is normally 125 Hz, with a special firmware requested by John Carmack that makes it run at 250 Hz, tracker latency being vital due to the dependency of virtual reality's realism on response time. The latest version includes Oculus's new 1000 Hz Adjacent Reality Tracker, which aims to provide much lower latency tracking than almost any other tracker. It uses

1377-410: Is 1280×800 (16:10 aspect ratio), which leads to an effective of 640×800 per eye (4:5 aspect ratio). However, since the device does not feature a 100% overlap between the eyes, the combined horizontal resolution is effectively greater than 640. The image for each eye is shown in the panel as a barrel distorted image that is then corrected by pincushion effect created by lenses in the headset, generating

1458-559: Is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift , a virtual reality head-mounted display that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry. In 2017, Luckey left Oculus and founded defense contractor Anduril Industries , a defense technology company focused on autonomous drones and sensors for military applications. Luckey ranked number 22 on Forbes ' 2016 List of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40. Luckey

1539-556: Is going to do it. We strongly encourage you to support this Kickstarter." When Luckey launched his Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift, it also contained recorded endorsements from other prominent figures in the game industry, including Cliff Bleszinski , David Helgason , and Michael Abrash . During the Kickstarter campaign, Luckey demonstrated the Rift to gamers and the press at many gaming conventions, including PAX , Gamescom , and QuakeCon 2012 . The Kickstarter campaign

1620-459: The HBO TV show Silicon Valley in 2017, was speculated by some to be based on Luckey. Like Luckey, Feldspar is a young entrepreneur who became rich after selling his VR technology, and who tends to wear Hawaiian shirts. In September 2016, Luckey stated he is a libertarian who had supported Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in past elections. Since then, he has become a prominent fundraiser for

1701-501: The Republican Party and Donald Trump . In a 2024 interview, Palmer described himself as a "radical Zionist ". In September 2016, Luckey donated $ 10,000 to an organization called "Nimble America" with the stated purpose of "educating the community on our ideals of America First, Smart Trade, Legal Immigration, and Ethical Behavior." Luckey offered to match further contributions from r/The_Donald users for 48 hours after

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1782-534: The United States Senate in April 2018, Senator Ted Cruz asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg "Why was Palmer Luckey fired?". Zuckerberg refused to get into the "specific personnel matter", saying only that "it was not because of a political view". In November 2018, The Wall Street Journal obtained access to internal Facebook emails which suggested the matter was discussed at the highest levels of

1863-541: The "Oculus Rift", which was intended to be sold as a do-it-yourself kit on Kickstarter to fellow enthusiasts. He launched Oculus VR in April 2012 to facilitate the official launch of the Kickstarter campaign. John Carmack of id Software , a game developer famous for his work on the Doom and Quake video game series, requested a prototype headset from Luckey, who lent it to Carmack free of charge. Carmack used it to demonstrate id Software's Doom 3: BFG Edition on

1944-518: The 2011 prototype was the first to incorporate key technologies like geometric pre-distortion and a wide stereoscopic field-of-view that would come to define all of his subsequent designs. Luckey decided to drop out of college and start Oculus VR , intending to turn his prototype into the world's first mass-produced virtual reality headset. Noted videogame pioneer John Carmack , the founder of id Software , had been doing extensive research into virtual reality technology, leading Luckey to lend him

2025-614: The 5 cameras on the HMD to track points in the environment and infrared LEDs on the controllers, information from accelerometers in both the HMD and controllers, and computer vision to predict what path the HMD and controllers are most likely to take. The Rift S uses a DisplayPort 1.2 port and one USB 3.0 port, as opposed to the HDMI and USB 3.0 port used on the Rift CV1. The Rift S targeted the same price point (USD$ 399) and hardware requirements as

2106-574: The Advanced Battle Management Systems (ABMS), a cutting-edge multi-billion dollar project by the U.S. Air Force . In February 2022, Luckey announced that Anduril had won a $ 1 billion contract to lead counter-unmanned systems work for United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). According to a May 4, 2022 announcement, Anduril and the Australian military are "entering into commercial negotiations for

2187-484: The CV1 with software updates for "the foreseeable future". On May 21, 2019, Oculus began shipping a new VR headset known as Rift S. The Rift S has a 1,280 ×1,440 LCD @ 80 Hz and slightly larger field of view than that of the CV1, but lacks mechanical IPD adjustment (IPD adjustment is software-only). The Rift S tracks the position of itself and its controllers in 3D space using a system known as Oculus Insight, which uses

2268-509: The Crescent Bay Prototype, featuring per-eye displays with a 1080×1200 resolution, running at 90 Hz, 360-degree positional tracking, integrated audio, a vastly increased positional tracking volume, and a heavy focus on consumer ergonomics and aesthetics. In March 2019, during the announcement of the Rift S, it was said that the Rift S would replace the original Rift. However, Oculus VR stated that they planned to support

2349-680: The Development Kit 2 using SDK version 0.8 or above are compatible with the Rift; however, content developed for the Development Kit 1 or with older versions of the SDK will have to be recompiled using the latest SDK version to be compatible. On December 21, 2015, Oculus announced the release of their finalized Rift 1.0 SDK, combined with the start of shipping their final version of the Oculus Rift VR headset to developers. At Oculus's 3rd annual conference (Oculus Connect 3), it announced

2430-425: The Development Kit 2), including Project CARS , Elite: Dangerous , Euro Truck Simulator 2 , and Dirt Rally , as well as a number of indie games such as AaAaAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity and Ether One . Fans and hobbyists have also modded support for the Rift into several popular titles which allow for extensive low-level modding , including Minecraft and Flight Simulator X . At

2511-409: The Kickstarter was to get an Oculus Rift prototype—now referred to as DK1 (Development Kit 1)—into the hands of developers to begin integration of the device into their games. The DK1 was given as a reward to backers who pledged $ 300 or more on Kickstarter, and was later sold publicly for $ 300 on their website. These kits sold at a rate of 4–5 per minute for the first day, before slowing down throughout

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2592-746: The ModRetro Forums with a friend, creating an online community for "portabilization", a hobby that revolves around turning old hardware devices such as game consoles and PCs into self-contained portable units mixing new and old technology. While attending college, he also worked part-time as an engineer in the Mixed Reality Lab (MxR) of the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) at the University of Southern California designing cost-effective virtual reality systems for BRAVEMIND ,

2673-417: The Oculus Rift. These early prototypes used a high speed IMU , 5.6" LCD , and wide-FOV optics to project a 90 degrees horizontal and 110 degrees vertical stereoscopic 3D view onto the retina of the user. Two months after being formed as a company, Palmer's Oculus VR launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign on August 1, 2012, for their virtual reality headset, named the Rift. The main purpose of

2754-558: The Oculus Store, over allegations of anti-competitive behaviors. Oculus Rift Oculus Rift is a discontinued line of virtual reality headsets developed and manufactured by Oculus VR , a virtual reality company founded by Palmer Luckey that is widely credited with reviving the virtual reality industry. It was the first virtual reality headset to provide a realistic experience at an accessible price, utilizing novel technology to increase quality and reduce cost by orders of magnitude compared to earlier systems. The first headset in

2835-541: The Oculus Touch as long as Luckey is employed by Oculus. Tomorrow Today Labs later reversed this position, saying they "failed to find any evidence backing up the Daily Beast’s claim that Luckey paid for hate speech. Only a lame billboard." In March 2017, Palmer Luckey left Facebook, and stopped his involvement with Oculus VR. No explanation for the departure was given by either party. As part of testimony before

2916-695: The Oculus brand would be phased out in 2022; all Facebook hardware products will be marketed under the Meta name, and Oculus Store would be renamed Quest Store. Likewise, immersive social platforms associated with Oculus will be brought under the Horizon brand (such as Horizon Worlds ). On April 22, 2024, the company announced that the Meta Quest Store was renamed as the Meta Horizon Store. In

2997-530: The Rift CV1, and has replaced the Rift CV1 since. During September 2020, it was announced that the Rift S would be discontinued in 2021 in order for Oculus to focus on the Oculus Quest 2 . In 2021, the Rift S was officially discontinued and was no longer available on the Oculus website, effectively ending the Rift line. The Oculus Rift runtime officially supports Microsoft Windows , macOS , and Linux . The installation package includes components such as

3078-405: The Rift is primarily a gaming device and that their main content focus is gaming. Existing games with a first-person or fixed-camera perspective can be ported to VR with some development effort. However, Oculus has stated that the best virtual reality experiences are those that are designed, from the beginning, for the Rift. A number of AAA games have added Rift support (and can be played with

3159-401: The Rift to be used to view conventional movies and videos from inside a virtual cinema environment, giving the user the perception of viewing the content on a cinema-sized screen. Oculus Cinema will also have a networked mode, in which multiple users can watch the same video in the same virtual space, seeing each other as avatars and being able to interact and talk to one another while watching

3240-412: The Rift would ship in the first quarter of 2016, and on March 25, 2016, the first batch of headsets began shipping to consumers. In January, 2016, Oculus announced that backers of the original Kickstarter who had pledged $ 275 or more—roughly 7,500 users—would be gifted a free Oculus Rift kit, including the new headset, a game controller, and two VR games. The consumer version is an improved version of

3321-626: The Rift's eventual consumer release. However, both development kits were purchased by many gaming enthusiasts who wished to get an early preview of the technology. The Rift saw its official consumer release in March 2016 with the Oculus Rift CV1 , and was eventually replaced in March 2019 by the Oculus Rift S . The Oculus Rift software library is still compatible with its successor, the Oculus Quest . Through Meant to be Seen (MTBS)'s virtual reality and 3D discussion forums , Palmer Luckey ,

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3402-477: The Rift, a team which has multiple former employees from major VFX companies such as PIXAR and ILM . Oculus Story Studio showed off its first VR movie, Lost , at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival , gaining positive reviews from attendees. The studio intends to have 5 VR shorts released with the Rift at launch, including Lost , Bullfighter , Henry , Dear Angelica , and Kabloom . Palmer Luckey Palmer Freeman Luckey (born September 19, 1992 )

3483-570: The Rift, this being entirely optional. The Store can be accessed from the VR-based Oculus Home, from its desktop app, or on the Oculus web site under the section "Experiences." Listings on the registry include: Content for the Rift is developed using the Oculus PC SDK, a free proprietary SDK available for Microsoft Windows (OSX and Linux support is planned for the future). This is a feature complete SDK which handles for

3564-426: The announcement. Luckey later issued an apology, stating on his Facebook page, "I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners." He stated that he acted independently, not as a representative of Oculus VR. The Wall Street Journal later reported that Luckey had been pressured into making this statement as a condition of employment. In October 2020, Luckey hosted

3645-460: The back of the headset. Oculus has also licensed software library RealSpace3D, which is expected to provide the Rift with HRTF and reverb algorithms. During a panel at SXSW 2015 , titled "Explore the Future of VR", it was publicly announced for the first time that the prototype uses two screens instead of one as previously thought. Oculus VR announced on May 6, 2015, that the consumer version of

3726-625: The base software, called Core 2.0, introduced a more interactive default environment, allowing the user to navigate and customize it with imported 3D models. However in 2023, Meta, formerly known as Oculus, closed Oculus Home and killed it off. Oculus maintains a market place for applications for the headsets. The listings are curated to only allow applications that run smoothly on the recommended hardware. Most listings are also rated on their comfort level based on their likelihood of causing motion sickness or number of jump scares. However, developers do not have to use Oculus Home to distribute content for

3807-484: The business, saying, "I have my hands in everything, from product engineering to game development to marketing," Later, he shifted his focus towards virtual reality input hardware, calling it a "pet project" that eventually culminated in the Oculus Touch spatial controller. Oculus VR was acquired by Facebook in March 2014 for US$ 2 billion. Although Luckey's share was not made public, Forbes magazine estimated

3888-561: The campaigns of dozens of Republican political candidates, including U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives . He has also donated to a large number of Republican- and conservative-affiliated organizations, including the National Republican Congressional Committee , the 2017 Presidential Inaugural Committee , Mike Pence 's Great America Committee , and many state Republican Party chapters. In November 2022, it

3969-754: The company announced that App Lab would be phased out in two phases, first placing App Lab access inside of a tab in the Horizon Store instead of a separate URL, and later phasing out all references to App Lab and merging App Lab content into the Horizon Store while no longer rejecting submissions to the Store on the basis of taste or quality. In 2022, the Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general of New York, Tennessee, and North Carolina began investigations into Meta's VR-related business practices, including third-party app distribution on

4050-414: The company. Facebook executives, including Zuckerberg, reportedly pressured Luckey to publicly voice support for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson , despite his support for then Republican nominee Donald Trump. After his firing, Luckey hired an employment lawyer , and together negotiated a payout of at least $ 100 million, arguing that the company had violated California law for allegedly pressuring

4131-682: The developer the various aspects of making virtual reality content, such as the optical distortion and advanced rendering techniques. The Oculus SDK is directly integrated with the popular game engines Unity 5 , Unreal Engine 4 , and Cryengine . This allows for developers already familiar with these engines to create VR content with little to no VR-specific code. The Rift is an open platform, and thus developers do not need any approval or verification to develop, distribute, or sell content for it, and do not have to pay any licensing fees. The SDK, however, cannot be modified or reused for other purposes or hardware without permission. Content developed for

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4212-530: The device at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012 . With the resulting attention of thousands of people suddenly drawn to the Rift, Luckey dropped out of university to focus on it full-time. Luckey also demonstrated the unit to Valve , and received a Kickstarter endorsement from Valve's managing director Gabe Newell , who said, "It looks incredibly exciting. If anybody is going to tackle this set of hard problems, we think that Palmer

4293-424: The device. The firmware is released under a simplified BSD license , while the schematics and mechanicals are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . In June 2013, a prototype of the Rift that used a 1080p LCD panel was shown at Electronic Entertainment Expo . This step forwards to twice the number of pixels as DK1 significantly reduced the screen door effect and made objects in

4374-632: The executive to voice support for Johnson and for punishing an employee for political activity. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth , who moved from the Ads team to leading the Oculus division four months after Luckey's departure, issued a series of tweets in November 2018 (subsequently deleted) denying wrongdoing on the part of Facebook, saying "Politics had nothing to do with Palmer's departure." Facebook likewise denied Luckey had been fired for supporting Trump, stating "We can say unequivocally that Palmer's departure

4455-503: The founder of Oculus and longtime MTBS discussion forum moderator, developed the idea of creating a new head-mounted display that was both more effective than what was then on the market, and inexpensive for gamers. 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 . Luckey had been building his own virtual reality headsets since 2009, but

4536-762: The founder's net worth to be $ 700 million in 2015. Shortly after the acquisition, ZeniMax Media filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas . The lawsuit contended that Luckey and Oculus used ZeniMax's "trade secrets, copyrighted computer code, and technical know-how relating to virtual reality technology", and sought financial damages for breach of contract , copyright infringement , and unfair competition . ZeniMax claimed it had invested "tens of millions of dollars in research and development" into VR technology, and that "Oculus and Luckey lacked

4617-449: The front panel from the device itself. In February 2015, Oculus announced that over 100,000 DK2 units had been shipped up until that point. In September 2014, Oculus once again presented an updated version of the Rift, codenamed Crescent Bay. This version has a greater resolution than the DK2, a lower weight, built-in audio, and 360-degree tracking thanks to the presence of tracking LEDs in

4698-427: The headset driver (which includes Oculus Display driver and controller drivers), Positional Tracking Sensor driver, Oculus Service, and Oculus Home Application. The runtime service implements a number of processing techniques intended to minimize latency and in addition improve the smoothness of VR applications under weaker hardware. These include direct mode, asynchronous timewarp , and asynchronous spacewarp . When

4779-476: The headset to maintain its frame rate. Oculus promoted that these changes lowered the average hardware cost of a PC meeting these specifications to US$ 500 and would also enable certain laptops to run Oculus Rift. In June 2018, Oculus VR updated its recommended OS spec to Windows 10. While Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users would still be able to access the standard Rift experience, newer features and apps might require an upgrade to Windows 10. Oculus has stated that

4860-584: The last." In 2014, Luckey was the recipient of Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the Youth category. In 2016, Luckey was awarded the Royal Photographic Society Progress medal and Honorary Fellowship, which is awarded in recognition of any invention, research, publication or other contribution that has resulted in an important advance in the scientific or technological development of photography or imaging in

4941-479: The life of the first consumer model. The company also stated that while upcoming discrete GPUs for laptops may be able to reach the required performance for Oculus Rift, systems that switch between integrated and discrete graphics may not handle output in a manner that supports the device. Oculus Rift only supports 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 or later; Oculus VR stated that the device would initially support Windows only in order to focus on "delivering

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5022-621: The line was the Oculus Rift DK1, released on March 28, 2013. The last was the Oculus Rift S , discontinued in April 2021. The Rift went through various pre-production models prior to the release of the Oculus Rift CV1, the first Oculus Rift intended for use by the general public. Two of these, the DK1 in early-2013 and DK2 in mid-2014, were intended to provide content developers with a development kit platform to create content for

5103-478: The necessary expertise and technical know-how to create a viable virtual reality headset". The jury trial completed on February 2, 2017. The jury found that Luckey had violated a non-disclosure agreement he had with ZeniMax, but awarded zero damages on this charge, judging the harm as de minimis . Though the jury found that Oculus, Facebook, Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, and John Carmack did not misappropriate or steal trade secrets and technology, they awarded

5184-621: The new technology, called "Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW)". This technology allows the Rift to compensate for the dropped frames. According to Oculus, ASW reduces the minimum specs of a PC to run the Rift without any judder. In May 2015, Oculus VR announced "recommended" hardware specifications for computers utilizing Oculus Rift, specifying a CPU equivalent to an Intel Core i5-4590 , at least 8GB of RAM, at least an AMD Radeon R9 290 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, an HDMI 1.3 output, three USB 3.0 ports, and one USB 2.0 port. Oculus VR stated that these requirements would remain in force for

5265-459: The release event for the Rift in June 2015, Oculus announced 9 launch titles for the Rift, including EVE: Valkyrie by CCP and Edge of Nowhere by Insomniac Games . It also announced that it was working with other developers including Final Fantasy developer Square Enix , Rock Band developer Harmonix , and The Order: 1886 developer Ready at Dawn . In July 2015, Oculus revealed that it

5346-471: The same announcement, software platform would be rebranded as Meta Horizon OS and opened to third-party headset manufacturers (starting with Microsoft , Asus and Lenovo ), the Meta Quest mobile companion app renamed as the Horizon mobile app, and a new spatial app framework was announced to assist mobile developers in porting their software to, or programming original apps for, Horizon OS. In addition,

5427-559: The southern border of the US; the program led to 55 attempted entrants being caught in its first 12 days in operation. Anduril later won the Autonomous Surveillance Tower Program of Record , resulting in the deployment of hundreds of Anduril Sentry Towers at a cost of "hundreds of millions of dollars". In September 2020, Luckey announced through Twitter that Anduril had received a contract worth $ 967M for

5508-402: The stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it." Luckey additionally described it as "just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design". He also mentioned that while it is "the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user, it won’t be

5589-451: The stereoscopic 3D no longer 100% overlapping, the left eye seeing extra area to the left and the right eye seeing extra area to the right, in which there is no 3D depth perception. The field of view (FOV) is more than 90 degrees horizontal (110 degrees diagonal), which is more than double the FOV of previous VR devices from other companies, and is the primary strength of the device. The resolution

5670-410: The store. In 2021, Facebook introduced "App Lab", a new section within the storefront allowing developers to upload and distribute apps without going through the formal review process. App Lab is designed primarily to support early access models, and can support public and invite-based distribution. As a result of Facebook's corporate rebranding as Meta Platforms, CTO Andrew Bosworth announced that

5751-460: The university's student-run newspaper, the Daily 49er . During his childhood and teenage years, Luckey experimented with a variety of complex electronics projects including railguns , Tesla coils , and lasers , with some of these projects resulting in serious injuries. He built a PC gaming "rig" worth tens of thousands of U.S. dollars with an elaborate six-monitor setup. In 2009, he founded

5832-482: The user puts on the Rift and no other content is being outputted to the headset, they are presented with Oculus Home . This is the default environment of the Rift, which presents them with a loft environment and a floating menu, allowing the user to launch VR applications they own, see if their friends are using the Rift, and purchase virtual reality content on the Oculus Home store from the headset. An update to

5913-471: The video. The Rift also offers the opportunity to view new types of media that are impossible to view on regular monitors; 360° 3D videos and 'virtual reality movies' (an entirely new medium). Spherical videos (commonly called 360° videos) can be viewed simply by the user moving their head around, and the Rift opens up the possibility for stereoscopic spherical videos (commonly called 360° 3D videos). In September 2014, NextVR announced that they would be using

5994-435: The virtual world more clear, especially at a distance. The poor resolution had been the main criticism of the DK1. This HD prototype is the only prototype of the Rift shown to the public which did not turn into a publicly available developer kit. In January 2014, an updated prototype codenamed "Crystal Cove" was unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show , which used a special low- persistence of vision OLED display as well as

6075-448: The week. The Rift DK1 was released on March 29, 2013, and uses a 7-inch (18 cm) screen with a significantly faster pixel switching speed than the original prototype, reducing latency and motion blur when turning one's head quickly. The pixel fill is also better, reducing the screen door effect and making individual pixels less noticeable. The LCD is brighter and the color depth is 24 bits per pixel. The 7-inch screen also makes

6156-474: Was announced that as a commemoration of the anime Sword Art Online , Luckey created a VR headset art piece that kills its human user in real life when the user dies digitally in the video game, by means of several explosive charges affixed above the screen, on what appears to be a modified Meta Quest Pro, to aim the blast at the user's forebrain. Luckey blogged, "The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me—you instantly raise

6237-473: Was born and raised in Long Beach, California , with three younger sisters. His father worked at a car dealership . As a child he was homeschooled by his mother, took sailing lessons, and developed an intense interest in electronics and engineering. He took courses at Golden West College and Long Beach City College beginning at the age of 14 or 15, and then at California State University, Long Beach in 2010. He wrote and served as online editor for

6318-668: Was featured on the cover of Time magazine in the article "The Surprising Joy of Virtual Reality", in an image that was widely ridiculed on the internet, with questions being asked if the entire field of VR had been damaged. In April 2017, Luckey was linked to the creation of false, misleading, and inaccurate headlines and memes in support of Donald Trump . Luckey lives in a shared house with several others where they regularly play multiplayer videogames, and he typically wears casual clothes like shorts, T-shirts, Hawaiian shirts , and sandals. The character Keenan Feldspar, played by Haley Joel Osment , who appeared on several episodes of

6399-455: Was fully funding more than 20 second party high production value games made exclusively for the Rift, one of these being Insomniac 's Edge of Nowhere . In July 2017, Marvel announced in the Disney's D23 event that it will be bringing 12 superheroes of theirs to VR with an Oculus exclusive game called Powers United VR. Oculus is including Oculus Cinema as a free application, which allows

6480-421: Was not due to his political views." In June 2017, Luckey founded the autonomy-focused defense technology company Anduril Industries , along with former Palantir Technologies executives Matt Grimm, Trae Stephens, and Brian Schimpf, and early Oculus VR Hardware Lead Joseph Chen. In March 2018, Anduril began a pilot program for the US government to detect human trafficking and drug smuggling in remote areas of

6561-481: Was successful, raising US$ 2.4 million, or 974% of its original target. After raising more than $ 1 million, Luckey hired Brendan Iribe in August 2012 to be CEO of Oculus. Oculus VR expanded, taking on more employees and a larger office space. Luckey described his day-to-day process as not having "changed all that much," remaining a "slow plod towards making this thing a reality." Luckey continued to work on all aspects of

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