Friday 30 June 2017

Palmer Luckey backs VR project to make exclusive Oculus games run on the HTC Vive

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey confirmed yesterday that he donated money to a virtual reality project focused on letting the HTC Vive headset play games exclusive to the Oculus Rift. The project, called CrossVR, is currently live on crowdfunding site Patreon with a note thanking Luckey for his contribution.

Although the note now confirms the $2,000 pledge (it apparently did not originally contain the exact figure), Waypoint confirmed the donation with Luckey himself. There is a slight discrepancy in the numbers: the project has only $2,005 per month from 64 backers. That suggests Luckey’s donation was a one-time thing, perhaps occurring outside Patreon.

Regardless, the donation is a strange move for a number of reasons. Luckey is no...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/30/15904518/palmer-luckey-oculus-rift-htc-vive-vr-exclusive-games-crossvr

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/06/palmer-luckey-backs-vr-project-to-make.html

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