2012 · Kickstarter
Would you have funded Oculus VR?
A virtual-reality headset for gamers
A young hardware hacker has built a low-cost virtual-reality headset prototype. The team launches a Kickstarter offering developer kits to backers who pledge $300.
- Developer kits for $300 pledges
- Consumer VR had failed before, in the 1990s
Show what happened
🦄 Breakout
Oculus VR Facebook agreed to buy it in 2014 for about $2 billion.
Thousands of Kickstarter backers, then venture firms, invested.
Sources: Oculus VR (Wikipedia)
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