Oculus founder Palmer Luckey announces new headset details
Palmer Luckey, founder and engineer of VR company Oculus, which served as the prototype for Meta's VR/AR research division,
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https://www.roadtovr.com/palmer-luckey-xr-headset-military-anduril-awe-2024/
In early June 2024, Luckey announced the ModRetro Chromatic , a portable gaming console he billed as the 'ultimate Game Boy Color.'
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In response to the announcement, Luckey was asked, 'Even Palmer Luckey seems to want to release a handheld device rather than a VR head-mounted display (HMD).' Luckey responded, 'We're working on a new HMD, and we'll be announcing it at AWE.'
I am going to be announcing the fact that I am working on a new HMD at AWE!
— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) June 3, 2024
Luckey, who appeared on stage at AWE, announced that he is working on a new HMD as promised. However, the project is still in the early stages, and Luckey only said, 'It's being driven by military needs, but it can also be used for non-military purposes,' without going into details.
🚨 Breaking @PalmerLuckey announces that he is working on a new headset on stage at #AWE2024 that has both military and non military applications. This in response to the question what would you do if you were starting fresh pic.twitter.com/OZrv6wKtJW
— Jesse Nowlin 🎙 Google Cloud Champion Innovator (@MrJNowlin) June 19, 2024
Lucky brought a case with the 'Oculus' logo and the words 'Development Kit' to the venue.
I'm back in Long Beach for AWE, just a couple miles from where I started Oculus in my trailer over a decade ago!
— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) June 19, 2024
We are going to be talking about the past, the present, what we would be working on today if we were starting from scratch, and maybe even something new. https://t.co/7VFSlXFO55 pic.twitter.com/QVm3cwG7Xf
Some people seemed to be hoping that 'Maybe there's a newly developed HMD inside?', but in fact it literally contained Oculus' first development model, the Oculus Rift DK1, and the audience was excited to hear this.
Showing off the progress since the first Oculus DK1 which @PalmerLuckey pulled out of its original case to the @BigscreenVR brand new Bigscreen Beyond headset that fits in a beer can 🤯
— Jesse Nowlin 🎙 Google Cloud Champion Innovator (@MrJNowlin) June 19, 2024
Incredible! #AWE2024 pic.twitter.com/PFhm4ZegOJ
Luckey also noted that the environment surrounding VR is changing, with Meta's VR headset Quest expected to sell 20 million units in 2023 and 1 million people playing the VR game 'Gorilla Tag' every day, and that the standards for success themselves have changed.
@PalmerLuckey talking about how much #VR has advanced in the last 10 years. 20x more pixels, 20 million quests sold last year, 3x less weight… a million people playing @GorillaTagVR everyday… the bar of success has been changed, ie, the perception of what success is…with… pic.twitter.com/FYBEv2pBCJ
— Taron Khachatryan 🇦🇲 (@Taronium_) June 19, 2024
In addition, Skeeva, the founder of an XR marketing company and a VR studio, reported that he brought an Oculus Rift DK1 to the venue and got Lackey's autograph.
AWE is so incredible! Even got my Oculus DK1 headset signed by Palmer Luckey!
— Skeeva (@skeeva) June 18, 2024
Are you at @ARealityEvent ? Let's meet up! pic.twitter.com/XznRyVWbau
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