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The founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, was gaining reputation for having the largest personal collection of head-mounted display in the world. For many years he has been moderating in Meant to Be Seen 3D (MTBS3D), a discussion forum on 3D.3 Palmer developed the idea of ​​creating a new head-mounted display that would be more effective than those currently in use. the market, as well as cheaper for gamers. Coincidentally, John Carmack was doing his own research at the same time that Palmer was carrying out his development. Later, Carmack would create a sample version that would favor the Luckey prototype. In parallel, just before the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Id Software announced that its future update of Doom 3, which would be known as the BFG Edition, would be compatible with the head-mounted display units.4 During the convention, Carmack presented a head-mounted display attached with adhesive tape based on Palmer’s Oculus Rift prototype, which worked with the Carmack software. This had a high-speed IMU and a 5.6-inch (14cm) LCD screen visible through dual lenses that were positioned above the eyes. In this way, it provided a 90-degree horizontal view and a 110-degree vertical view in a stereoscopic 3D perspective.5 6 On March 25, 2014, Facebook announced that it had agreed to purchase Oculus VR for $ 400 million in cash, 1,600 million in Facebook values ​​and an additional 300 million in Oculus VR. This will be used to meet certain financial objectives in a transaction that is expected to end in the second quarter of 2014.7 8 9

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Palmer Luckey, the project’s founder, is a Head-mounted display designer at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. The CEO of Oculus Rift since its inception has been Brendan Iribe. Andrew Scott Reisse was chief engineer, until his death in May 2013. John Carmack becomes Oculus Rift’s Technology Director in November 2013, after leaving the company id Software.

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