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Developer kit for the Oculus Rift - the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games.
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Dates: Aug 1st -> Sep 1st (31 days)
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Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Arriving On Android Devices In The Future?

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Oculus remains focused on PC first for Rift, using new capital to scale up staff

June 18th - via: engadget.com
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Can an Oculus Rift Game Make You 'Genuinely Horny?' They're Gonna Try.

June 16th - via: kotaku.com
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E3 2013: Oculus Rift Shows Off Virtual Reality Upgrades Using Epic's Unreal Engine 4

June 14th - via: hngn.com
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This LSD-Inspired Oculus Game is The Most Intense Thing I Saw at E3

June 14th - via: kotaku.com
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Oculus Rift – Doesn’t look real but feels real

June 10th - via: 3dfocus.co.uk
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Palmer Luckey’s Oculus Rift could be a virtual reality breakthrough

June 8th - via: herocomplex.latimes.com
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Oculus Rift co-founder killed by gang trying to escape police (video)

May 31st - via: abclocal.go.com
The pedestrian who was struck and killed during a police chase in Santa Ana was identified Friday as 33-year-old Andrew Scott Reisse. Coworkers described him as a "brilliant mind." Reisse, a Santa Ana resident, was walking in a crosswalk when he was struck and killed at the end of a police chase Thursday. Reisse's father, who lives in Virginia, said his son moved to Southern California about a year ago. Reisse co-founded Oculus VR in Irvine, a company known for its virtual reality headsets for immersive gaming. (Read More)

The 5 Worst Kickstarter Ideas That Actually Got Funded

May 4th - via: cracked.com
In a recent Does Not Compute, we discussed (well, I discussed AT you, which is by far my favorite way to interact) Kickstarter ideas so terrible, they failed to raise any money or attract a single backer. Shattered dreams = hilarious! I also plugged my own Kickstarter, which, now that I think about it, probably wasn't the best mental association I could have gone for. (Read More)

Kickstarter: 10 Tech Projects That Raised Most Funds

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Every start up needs the right source of finance to turn that dream into reality. The funding of creative projects has always been major concerns for entrepreneurs looking forward to kick start their ventures. Such start ups often find themselves at crossroads. Kickstarter, a private for profit... (Read More)

GDC: Oculus VR, Ouya Kickstart Up a Storm

March 30th - via: pcmag.com
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Oculus wows the crowd with demos of its Rift virtual reality platform, Ouya makes headlines by announcing June 4 retail launch of $99, Android-based console. (Read More)

Kickstarter launched 18,000 projects in 2012; 17 raised more than $1 million

January 11th - via: washingtonpost.com
Kickstarter reports that its 2.2 million members pledged more than $319 million in 2012, up 221 percent from the year before. But more striking, perhaps, is the scale of some of Kickstarter’s latest success stories. While no project had raised $1 million at this time last year, 17 projects passed that mark in 2012. (Read More)

How Kickstarter stole CES: the rise of the indie hardware developer

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Top 10 engineering Kickstarter projects

December 28th - via: eetimes.com
Crowdfunding site Kickstarter launched in April, 2009, and has revolutionized investment ever since. Through micro-funding, the platform managed to turn the internet into an online hub for raising money in small increments from the general public in support of a cause, product or project. In other words, suddenly, backing startups wasn’t just for venture capitalists, it was for everyman (and woman). (Read More)

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