The Oculus Rift changed technology forever ... "While we're retiring the name, I can assure that the original Oculus vision ...

Oculus Rift dev kits are starting to make their way onto the workbenches of makers around the globe. Some are even going so far as to tear open the hardware and see how they can improve it.

The original Kickstarter page mentions that Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset made "specifically for video games," but the device has been used for much more than gaming since then.

He spent some time building a library — VR Zero — and then recreated the original demo in 80 more ... Configurations for the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 and the Xbox Joypad.

Things have gotten simpler since then: outside a few special circumstances, we’re now almost always referring to things you see inside a VR headset like the Oculus Rift. Unfortunately ...