Oculus Rift Kickstarter

This Kickstarter is for Oculus Rift, described as "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games." This includes endorsement quotes from id Software's John Carmack, Epic's Cliff Bleszinski, Unity's David Helgason, and Valve's Michael Abrash and Gabe Newell (thanks Rob). Word is:
Oculus Rift is a new virtual reality (VR) headset designed specifically for video games that will change the way you think about gaming forever. With an incredibly wide field of view, high resolution display, and ultra-low latency head tracking, the Rift provides a truly immersive experience that allows you to step inside your favorite game and explore new worlds like never before.

We're here raising money on Kickstarter to build development kits of the Rift, so we can get them into the hands of developers faster. Kickstarter has proven to be an amazing platform for accelerating big and small ideas alike. We hope you share our excitement about virtual reality, the Rift, and the future of gaming.
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Aug 3, 2012, 07:37
 
It's purely a proof of concept at this stage, the consumer version is targetting a min of 1080p from panels such as the Toshiba 2560x1600 6.1" IPS panel.

As Carmack says, the prototype is for the hacker/maker crowd and for devs to start building support.

I remember playing on one of those arcade machines except it was a flight sim, I was totally blown away this has been a long time coming. Imagine playing an RTS game and literally being in the clouds looking down etc.

I'm around backer #80.
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