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Garage beginnings: Palmer Luckey owned a collection of over 40 different vintage VR headsets before he ever built his own Oculus prototype.
A preliminary model of something from which other forms are developed or copied. Palmer Luckey built the first Oculus Rift prototype in his parents' Long Beach garage in 2011.
In which US state did teenage inventor Palmer Luckey build the first Oculus Rift prototype?
What key consumer electronics component did Palmer Luckey use to make his early VR prototypes affordable?
How much money did the original 2012 Oculus Rift Kickstarter campaign raise from backers?
At which major video game industry event in 2012 did John Carmack first publicly demo the Oculus Rift prototype?
Which legendary video game programmer co-founded id Software and became the Chief Technology Officer of Oculus?
What term describes the lag time between a user moving their head and the VR display updating?