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Oculus Rift Crowdfunding - First High-Quality VR Headset
In 2012, a crowdfunding campaign began for a VR headset known as Oculus Rift.
The project was led by several video game developers, including Carmack, who later became the company's CEO. -
Oculus bought by Facebook for $2 billion
In March 2014, The project's parent company "Oculus" was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. This enraged a lot of customers and cause controversy, because people didn't think it was a good step towards the company's future.
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Competition rises for the Oculus Rift
In March 2014, Sony demonstrated a prototype headset for PlayStation 4, which was later named PlayStation VR.
In 2014, Valve demonstrated some headset prototypes, which lead to a partnership with HTC to produce the Vive, which focuses on "room scale" VR environments that users can naturally navigate within and interact with.[15] The Vive was released in April 2016 and PlayStation VR in October 2016.
The PlayStation VR proved to be worse than its two competitors. -
Oculus Rift begins shipping - Huge success
The final consumer-oriented release of Oculus Rift began shipping on 28 March 2016.
This was the first high-quality headset, and had a lot of positive reviews. -
Oculus Rift S replaces Oculus Rift (CV1)
On March 20, 2019 released the Oculus Rift S. The Oculus Rift S is similar to its ancestor, the Oculus Rift CV1. It was released to keep up with today's technology, and is considered to be the better version. -
The release of the Oculus Quest - The first standalone VR Headset
The Oculus Quest is a virtual reality headset created by Oculus.
The device is fully standalone, and features two, six degrees of freedom controllers. It launched on May 21, 2019. The Oculus Quest's most noticeable feature is that it's standalone- No computer required. This is a huge advantage as you can bring it anywhere and a good computer is not required.
The Oculus Quest has overwhelmingly good reviews and is considered very high-end, and currently is the only one of its kind.
