As geeks, we have a tendency to let our imaginations run away with us. Science fiction-fueled dreams conjure up images of flying cars, robots and artificial reality. We judge our gadgets by the arbitrary standards of famous speculative works: hoverboards by 2015 and a holodeck in every home. It’s a silly and unrealistic way to measure our progress, but it inspires us to build the future we’re tired of waiting for. This is the kind of passion we found at Oculus VR headquarters, where founder Palmer Luckey and a platoon of software engineers, hardware gurus and marketing wizards hope to make virtual reality a plausiblereality. We sat down with the company’s aforementioned founder and VP of Product Nate Mitchell to find out where that passion came from and where Oculus VR is heading.
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals, Wearables
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