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Oculus Rift co-founder killed by speeding car

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Andrew oculus-andrew-reisseScott Reisse, the 33 year-old co-founder of the company that makes the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, was struck and killed in a Santa Ana crosswalk Thursday by a car that was attempting to avoid the police.

KABC reports that a car allegedly driven by 21-year old Victor Sanchez struck two other cars and ran through several red lights — including the crosswalk where Reisse was walking — in a high-speed chase. Sanchez and two other suspects in the car were taking into custody. Police say all are gang members on probation with outstanding warrants. Reisse died at the scene.

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Is Virtual Reality the Next Big Thing in Gaming?

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Virtual occulus-virtual-realityReality seems like a remnant from the 1990s—a nifty sounding technology that failed to live up to its potential, hamstrung by bulky headsets and overly high expectations.

But the team at the start-up Oculus thinks there’s still a lot of potential in the idea—and it has managed to bring several of the video game industry’s top developers onboard.

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Oculus Rift prepares to ship 10,000 dev kits

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While oculuslargeit has popped up at trade shows here and there for the better part of the past seven months, the Oculus Rift has only been in the hands of three groups for more than a few minutes: id Software, Valve Software and the team at Oculus itself.

That all changes in March, when the company plans to ship out some 10,000 developer kits. And while a lot of those will end up in the hands of eager fans who won’t quite know what to do with them, Oculus is hoping the ones who do will move the virtual reality headset into the fast lane.

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Virtual reality makes a comeback with Oculus Rift

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Virtual reality got a bad reputation in the early 1990s. Proponents overpromised and underdelivered, with crappy graphics and headache-inducing headgear — not to mention prices that were so stratospheric, there was no way anyone could afford to buy a system.

It was a technology that became an afterthought — until game design guru John Carmack took an interest, at least. During the E3 conference in June, Carmack showed off the Oculus Rift headset, a virtual reality device he helped to create using (no joke) Oakley ski goggles, duct tape, and spare miniaturized rocket parts he had lying around his shop.

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