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MIKE HIGHLIGHTS // VR Engineer?—?Alex Silkin

ARVR

He has been working in VR development since 2012, prior to the release of the first modern VR consumer headset, the Oculus Rift. I was very lucky to be at the right place at the right time when I met Nathan Burba and James Iliff who were pitching Project Holodeck as an Advanced Games project at USC in spring 2012. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years.