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Oculus Raises $75 Million To Make VR Headset

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The company making the VR headset that has John Carmack and many others in the gaming industry excited has just received another $75 million in funding to make it happen. Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is joining the company's board, along with fellow investor Chris Dixon. Dixon had seen a prototype earlier this year, but it wasn't good enough to spark his interest. After recently seeing how the device has progressed since then, he was blown away, comparing it to early demos of the iPhone. 'The dimensions where you need to improve this kind of VR are latency, resolution and head tracking, and they have really nailed those things.' Now that the device is in good shape, Oculus is going to work on turning it into a product they can produce and ship for gamers."

8 of 114 comments (clear)

  1. Re:But will it give me a headache? by mythosaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being an adult ruined it for me.

    *shrug*

  2. Re:But will it give me a headache? by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
    --C.S. Lewis

  3. Re:Invest in nausea medication by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow... MTFU! You motion sickness people make me sick with your faint-hearted constitutions. I bet you can't read in a car either!

    People started complaining when I ran them over.

  4. Re:You readers are lame by i+kan+reed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the nausea and vomiting parts are laughable,

    As an owner of one, I have to disagree. You can come over and use mine. If you can beat the first 2 chapters of half-life 2 without taking it off or vomiting, I'll be staggered.

  5. Re:You readers are lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're like vampires. Next thing you know you'll be up to your eyeballs in MyCleanPC and ass tickle trolls.

  6. Re:Invest in nausea medication by Antipater · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously you're doing it wrong, or they wouldn't be complaining.

    --
    Everything is better with chainsaws.
  7. Should have parterned with MS/Sony/Nintendo by timeOday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The new next-gen consoles are all a bit lackluster, if you ask me. And Oculus Rift, though probably usable with existing games and GPUs, would really benefit with a big raft of new games and hardware made just for it. Sony, or Microsoft, or Nintendo, should have partnered with Oculus Rift and built their new generation of consoles around it.

  8. How about for work? by PeterM+from+Berkeley · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Forget about gaming, how about a HUGE virtual desktop for work?

    --PM