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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

VRScout

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Virtual reality has taken the world by storm. Here is a summation of all things virtual reality as we currently know it.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

Virtual reality has figured prominently at the event in recent years of course, quickly rising to become one of the shows hottest technologies. It was clear Oculus, thanks in no small part to its CTO John Carmack , was serious about the future of mobile, untethered mobile virtual reality. The OSVR HDK Headset.