The Oculus Rift developer kit - image courtesy Tested.com
The Rift developer kit – image courtesy Tested.com

Update (1/14/13, 1:15pm): The video has been removed from YouTube by the user. It is not clear why; Oculus may have asked them to. I’ll see if I can track down another video.

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Last week Oculus Inc. demoed their Oculus Rift head mounted display (HMD) / VR headset alongside thousands of other companies present at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The annual show is one of the largest technology conferences in the world. As I pointed out a few days ago, the press raved about it at the show. Now you can take a reporter’s-side seat and see the behind-closed-doors Oculus Rift press demo as it was given at CES 2013.

 

 

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Oculus Rift CES 2013 Press Demo

Oculus Inc. VP of Product, Nate Mitchell, tells the Oculus Rift origin story, talks about the head mounted display / VR headset, and walks the press through a brief demo using an Unreal test level.

The Oculus Rift is a forthcoming low-cost head mounted display for immersive virtual reality gaming. In August, Oculus Inc raised over $2 million through Kickstarter to get Oculus Rift developer kits into production. The kits are expected to arrive in March. Learn more about the Rift, and what games it will support, here.

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Ben Lang
Ben is the world's most senior professional analyst solely dedicated to the XR industry, having founded Road to VR in 2011—a year before the Oculus Kickstarter sparked a resurgence that led to the modern XR landscape. He has authored more than 3,000 articles chronicling the evolution of the XR industry over more than a decade. With that unique perspective, Ben has been consistently recognized as one of the most influential voices in XR, giving keynotes and joining panel and podcast discussions at key industry events. He is a self-described "journalist and analyst, not evangelist."
  • muterobert

    Absorbing all the new content, impressions, enthusiasm and overwhelming positivity the Rift is getting at CES this year .. the wait is killing me all over again.

    Worst thing is, I know Ben’ll get his Dev Kit first! ;)

  • Jesse

    I really need to find a job so i can get oculus rift when it comes out. and a better laptop. why does all the cool stuff have to come during the economic crises lol

    • Shane

      I know right, lol. There’s all these other things I want to buy but then I won’t have enough money for things like the rift.. choices … choices..

      • Jesse

        im deffo getting the rift. especially if they make a sword art online type game haha

  • uJelleh

    “This video has been removed by the user.” :(

  • Seraph

    Absolutely brilliant. Can’t wait!