The Oculus, Facebook and the revolution that swept virtual reality Harris, Blake J. 1982- creator Cline, Ernest author of introduction, etc. text bibliography biography Nonfiction. nyu 2020 monographic eng

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xx, 569 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 23 cm The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Palmer Luckey -- inventor, gamer, dreamer -- lives alone in a trailer in Long Beach, California, that he has transformed into a makeshift laboratory optimized to build virtual reality headsets -- a technology most believed died in the nineties. Luckey, however, is adamant about its resurrection; so, too, are other visionaries. Enter famed coder and video game pioneer John Carmack, who is developing a game that might be the perfect software companion to Luckey's hardware. Soon enough, the two team up, and with the help of a charismatic serial entrepreneur, a brilliant Russian programmer, and dozens of other colorful characters, Luckey's scrappy startup -- Oculus -- kickstarts a virtual reality revolution. What happens next turns out to be the ultimate entrepreneurial journey: a tale of battles won and lost, lessons learned, and never-ending twists and turns-including an unlikely, multi-billion-dollar acquisition by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, who wants to help bring VR to the masses. The result is a modern-day tale of the American Dream that is a front-row seat to the birth of a game-changing new industry. Foreword / Ernest Cline -- PART ONE. THE REVOLUTION VIRTUAL: 1. The boy who lived to mod -- 2. Carmack the Magnificent -- 3. A tale of two trade shows -- 4. The Scaleform Mafia -- 5 STK -- 6. Pivots, prototypes and partnerships -- 7. Freedom is happiness -- 8. That fateful promise -- 9. Mount up -- 10. Valve! -- 11. Kickstarter -- PART TWO. HOW TO BUILD A COMPANY: 12. The king of pop software -- 13. Showtime -- 14. The anomalies -- 15. The Hong Kong shuffle -- 16. Just kids -- 17. Oculus vs. Ouya -- 18. Good, better and best at the 2013 CES -- 19. Proverbs 20, verse 16 -- 20. Wall-to-wall drama -- 21. GDC -- PART THREE. THE GOOD OLD DAYS: 22. Move slow and build things (aka Facebook 2.0) -- 23. Nine stories -- 24. The future of gaming -- 25. Andrew Reisse -- 26. Ideas so crazy they just might -- 27. The room -- 28. Jockeying for position -- 29. Zuckerberg intrigued -- 30. Blue's clues -- 31. The backlash -- 32. The new normal -- 33. Enter NTC -- 34. Out of the woodwork -- 35. Charging forward -- 36. Canaries in the coal mine -- PART FOUR. POLITICS: 37. Twelve days in 2015 -- 38. Awaken the sleeping giants -- 39. Lockdown -- 40. Entitlement checks -- 41. The devil is in the details -- 42. Nimble -- 43. Internet drama -- 44. The daily beast -- 45. Exile -- 46. The heist, the comedy and the fantasy vs. the documentary -- 47. The verdict -- 48. The seemingly impossible challenge -- 49. Employee number one -- 50. He's back. Blake J. Harris. Originally published: 2019 Includes bibliographical references. Luckey, Palmer Oculus VR (Firm) Facebook (Firm) Facebook (Firm) Virtual reality Realidad virtual Computer industry United States Industria informática Estados Unidos QA 76.9 H313h 2020 006.8 9780062455970 0062455974 2018276666 NjBwBT 190718 20250520162737.0 21091223 eng