Tagged: oculus rift

June 5, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If you’re a regular visitor to Crowdfund Insider you’ve no doubt heard of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headset approved by grandmothers everywhere. Now the Rift’s logical companion is crowdfunding on Kickstarter and it has already met a $150,000 funding goal. It’s called… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 9:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding pioneer and gaming legend Andrew Reisse was killed in his hometown of Irvine, California last night. Reisse was crossing the street when he was struck by a car that was involved in a police pursuit. Reisse was 33 years old. Mashable reported the following statement… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 10:11 pm By Popular Mechanics  |  

The Oculus Rift is a stunning virtual-reality headset for gamers. In PopMech’s test, we found that “the experience is so immersive that it’s actually a bit disorienting.” Today, we sit down for a few questions and answers with Oculus Rift founder, CEO, and wunderkind Palmer Luckey…. Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 9:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve written numerous times about the Oculus Rift, a product by Oculus VR that gives video gamers a full virtual reality experience. Now a product called the meta 1 aims to bring virtual reality to our everyday world, and it’s crowdfunding now on Kickstarter. As… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 8:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Updated: Click here for the most recent version of this list… You may remember that we recently did this list on December 31st of last year. In just short of six months we have added 14 more campaigns to the list of Kickstarter raises that have… Read More

May 9, 2013 @ 2:40 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The video demo of “Road Redemption” on the Oculus Rift VR headset is mind-blowing. Remember Road Rash? It was a series of video games in the 90’s that had players fighting eachother while riding motorcycles. It was not only popular but also a lot of fun…. Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 8:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Skyrim was not originally designed for the Oculus Rift, but Chris Gallizzi ported the game to work with the virtual reality headset. He then recorded the experience and posted it to YouTube.

April 16, 2013 @ 9:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset for 3d games that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter to the tune of $2.4 million. Yesterday Gizmodo surfaced this awesome video of a 90 year old woman trying the headset on for the first time and her reaction… Read More

February 28, 2013 @ 2:18 pm By Kevin Ohannessian  |  

Using affordable hardware derived from cell phones, the Oculus Rift headset may finally deliver a rich virtual reality experience to gamers–and far beyond. Here, CEO Brendan Iribe talks us through the tech. See more news on the Oculus Rift Keanu Reeves went virtual in Johnny Mnemonic and The… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 11:50 am By Tadhg Kelly, TechCrunch  |  

… Amid all the gloom, the most interesting story of the year was crowdfunding. At first it seemed like a small thing, such as in 2011 when Six to Start raised $72,627. However a gear shifted in early 2012 when Double Fine got in on it, raising… Read More

December 27, 2012 @ 3:04 pm By Engadget  |  

This trip around the sun has been a monumental one for crowdfunding, marked by big projects and astronomical numbers. Take Kickstarter wunderkind OUYA, for example, which raised more than $8.5 million in funding from 63,416 backers. Kickstarter itself has even grown and matured, expanding to the… Read More