The first Oculus Rift developer kits are but a few weeks away from landing in the hands of eager developers. Oculus continues to build excitement for the release; this week they were at the annual SXSW and held a virtual reality panel with developers Cliff Bleszinski (formerly, Epic Games), Chris Roberts (Star Citizen), and Paul Bettner (Words With Friends). Oculus VP of Product, Nate Mitchells narrated the panel.
The Verge shot follow-up interviews to talk Oculus Rift and virtual reality with each of the developers on the panel:
Cliff Bleszinski
Chris Roberts
Paul Bettner
The Oculus Rift is an upcoming head mounted display (HMD / VR headset) for virtual reality gaming. In August 2012, a Kickstarter campaign pulled in an impressive $2.4 million in support for the developer kit. The company is hard at work building up the Oculus Rift SDK and no doubt working on the Oculus Rift 2.0 consumer version due out hopefully in 2013. The first batch of Oculus Rift developer kits are expected to reach developers by the end of this month.