Tagged: oculus

April 17, 2014 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

The Omni by Virtuix launched an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter last year. The project raised over $1.1 million as the future of virtual reality gaming came one step closer. The hardware paired with the Oculus Rift allows gamers to enter a virtual, 360… Read More

April 14, 2014 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Reviewed.com caught up with Oculus founder Palmer Luckey to talk about his company’s recent acquisition. When Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion, it ignited a firestorm that left many backers of the famed Oculus VR headset Kickstarter campaign crying foul. Luckey doesn’t see it that… Read More

April 13, 2014 @ 9:00 am By Kendall Almerico  |  

I have written about the misconception by some members of the general public that equity crowdfunding and rewards-based crowdfunding are the same thing.  Many people are misinformed and do not understand that Title III of the JOBS Act has nothing to do with rewards-based crowdfunding…. Read More

April 8, 2014 @ 1:52 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR by Facebook looms large over the crowdfunding space as evidenced by this tongue-in-cheek offer to backers of the Terribands Kickstarter campaign. If Facebook buys the company for $2 billion, they’ll issue refunds to crowdfunding backers. Now there’s some… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It seems everyone has an opinion on Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR and what it means for crowdfunding. That was the topic of conversation on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.” Yesterday the program hosted New York University Stern School of Business Professor Anindya Ghose and a… Read More

March 27, 2014 @ 1:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

So did you hear that Facebook bought Oculus VR for $2 billion? It’s the story that the entire tech world was talking about, and for good reason. Oculus is a clear leader in the world of virtual reality hardware. It’s one of the poster children… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 4:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a video interview former Facebook executive and Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) partner Bubba Murarka comments on the acquisition by Facebook of Oculus VR for $2 billion which was announced yesterday. Murarka admits that the move by Facebook is risky but also notes that without… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 6:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a post on the Oculus blog site, the start up tech company disclosed they were joining Facebook.  The deal was valued at $2 billion including $400 million in cash and 23.1 million in Facebook shares, plus an added $300 million payout in cash and… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 5:50 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Mark Zuckerberg just announced Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR in a post to… you guessed it. Post by Mark Zuckerberg. WOW. Early investor Chris Dixon lauded the team… I can’t say enough about the Oculus team. Palmer, Brendan, John, Nate, and the rest of the… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 1:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

TechCrunch has an awards series every year called the Crunchies, and Kickstarter just won the biggest Crunchie of them all. Kickstarter is TechCrunch’s “Best Overall Startup” for 2013. Kickstarter wasn’t the only winner from the wonderful world of crowdfunding in 2013. Oculus VR took home… Read More

January 24, 2014 @ 10:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Back in December, we noticed that there was a lot of hype around the Avegant Glyph and a forthcoming Kickstarter campaign that would accompany the launch of the device. It seems the hype was well-warranted, because in under 48 hours the Glyph has more than… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 10:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR isn’t a stranger to rave reviews of the forthcoming Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset poised to be really disruptive in the video game industry. However, a recent piece in Gizmodo gives the device some seriously high praise. The title says it all: I Wore the… Read More