Information on the consumer version of Oculus Rift has been revealed

A year ago I told Palmer Luckey’s story, about how he’d invented what would become Oculus Rift in his parent’s garage. He was the boy wonder swept up in a rollercoaster of success after John Carmack demoed his VR headset at E3 2012. Zoom went the Kickstarter campaign; zoom went the flood of excited, experimental game support; zoom went the increasingly massive piles of money raised by investors. A year later he was a millionaire, and now, two years later, he’s a multi-multi-millionaire, his company acquired by one of the biggest around, Facebook, and for a staggering $2bn. It’s against that backdrop I meet him face-to-face at Gamescom 2014, and I have lots of questions. I worry Facebook has changed Oculus’ priorities and that games – those things so responsible for putting Rift on the map – are no longer the reason for being, the prime concern. I worry Palmer Luckey is drifting with Oculus VR into a sea of money, on a boat stuffed with well dressed corporate clones who shave each morning and smell… neat. Bye bye games, thanks for the lift.