{"id":54286,"date":"2014-03-27T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T05:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=54286"},"modified":"2014-03-27T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T05:08:35","slug":"oculus-and-how-it-became-a-billion-dollar-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/oculus-and-how-it-became-a-billion-dollar-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus VR and how it became a billion dollar company"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I assume everyone heard the news of Facebook acquiring Oculus VR, but does everyone know how they got started?<\/p>\n

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Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR Inc., started venturing and experimenting with old\u00a0virtual reality (VR)\u00a0goggles and headsets in his teenage years which didn’t quite meet his mark. He wanted more performance, more portability and of course more affordability.<\/p>\n

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Read more about his journey here<\/a>, to create his own VR headsets, getting $2.5 million on kickstarter, founding of his company, Oculus VR Inc. and then the eventual $2 billion purchase of the company by Facebook.<\/p>\n

(Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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