Oculus Rift
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Sep 20, 2026
KainitsuHOST
And so that became the MetaQuest now, I think is what it's called.
KainitsuHOST
And so, yeah, but before the Oculus Rift, like, I guess it could be moving with 3D spaces, but I never saw anyone really doing that that often.
KainitsuHOST
But with the Vive and Steam Deck, you could, or the Index, you could do that, which is nice.
KainitsuHOST
So it can be a lot of fun moving around 3D environments and everything, and depending on how the game is made and how well they're able to program and able to get your, you know, your motion to work properly, because that was a big challenge for a lot of it.
Sean HollisterGUEST
This is how they were meant to be seen and meant to be seen by the way, the name of the forums that forever insisted that things were meant to be seen on the glasses, the shutter glasses.
Sean HollisterGUEST
Anyhow, also where the Oculus Rift got its start.
Sean HollisterGUEST
I'm on a tangent.
Sean HollisterGUEST
Yeah, I'm ripping Blu-rays, too.
Bob WulffHOST
if I'm being completely honest with you.
Will WulffHOST
Yeah, I think, I think that's the big thing about this, is that, you know, the Oculus Rift came out in 2013.
Will WulffHOST
We're, like, over a decade into the VR era-
Bob WulffHOST
Yeah
SadlyItsBradleyHOST
There's one video, I know a lot of people don't necessarily like what this guy has to say about VR a lot of times, but he's a former Valve employee called Chet Falasek.
SadlyItsBradleyHOST
I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, but he always has a great story about, and he retold it this week because obviously frame announced, but he was saying that You know, Val was obviously very into the big VR wave of like the Oculus Rift, Kickstarter, and like was supporting them early on.
SadlyItsBradleyHOST
And he talked about how literally as soon as Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus for like $2 billion or whatever it was back then, Gabe pulled everyone, everyone together.
SadlyItsBradleyHOST
And he was literally saying to everyone, we need to get out of VR.
Alex AldridgeHOST
Fucking Red Dead 2, bane of my life.
David SmillieHOST
Which company purchased the Oculus Rift in 2014 for 2 billion?
Alex AldridgeHOST
Meta?
David SmillieHOST
Well, yes.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
exactly.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
Did you hear the story about the Palmer Luckey? Palmer Luckey is the guy who invented the Oculus Rift.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
And he's invented that because his favourite TV show is Sword Art Online, which is an anime series where there's an incredibly realistic world that you can live in, and it's way better than reality.
Eddie EdwardsHOST
But, of course, it's got that classic, but if you die in the game, you die in real life.
Sean HollisterHOST
I'm Sean Hollister, and today we're talking Steam Frame with CNET's Scott Stein.
Sean HollisterHOST
He's a friend, and both of us have reviewed VR headsets going all the way back to the original Oculus Rift.
Sean HollisterHOST
We were two of the first journalists to play with it, and now we've been reviewing Valve's new Steam Frame.
Sean HollisterHOST
Today, we're gonna give you the rundown, but I also wanted Scott on to talk about what a Valve headset's like to review, 'cause this one feels a bit unfinished.
Scott SteinGUEST
Sure.
Scott SteinGUEST
So Valve has made VR headsets before.
Scott SteinGUEST
They were, they were, uh, partners basically with HTC VIVE, if you know VR history, all the way back when the Oculus Rift launched.
Scott SteinGUEST
They have had SteamVR.
BugHOST
We being any astrology girlies who are just hanging out and chilling in the chat.
BugHOST
If anybody wants to come at us about fucking Oculus Rift or whatever those extra signs are, they added, listen, that's not what I'm about.
MossHOST
I don't think the extra signs are Oculus Rift.
MossHOST
I'm pretty sure it is.
MossHOST
Okay.
BugHOST
I don't have that one.
BugHOST
Does that mean Gemini?
MossHOST
No, that's that special 13th sign that you thought was fucking Oculus Rift.
Andres ParadaGUEST
So I have a portable Xbox on me with a screen that goes in front of my face.
Toot WhitleyHOST
You don't have like Oculus Rift.
Toot WhitleyHOST
It's a screen that goes over your head.
Toot WhitleyHOST
Yeah, with a
Eric CoxGUEST
You're owning a piece of the company.
Eric CoxGUEST
There was a company, really cool, small company at the time called Oculus Rift, right out of, Oculus, right out of Long Beach.
Eric CoxGUEST
Um, and they actually did a front, they did a, a Kickstarter.
Joseph ShalabyHOST
The Oculus that was purchased by Facebook?
Joseph ShalabyHOST
Wow.
Eric CoxGUEST
And, and, and, and the, and a, and a $100 investor at the time would get a, I think it was a signed poster.
Eric CoxGUEST
Uh, and then I think $1,000 or more investor, some, some sort of investor would actually get a gen one Oculus Rift, and that's sick.
Eric CoxGUEST
Like I, [laughs] I would do it just for that, but I would much rather have owned $1,000 worth of shares in Oculus when they were acquired for, you know, a billion dollars.
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