Why Brendan Iribe is the true mastermind behind Oculus and VR in general who doesn't get the credit he deserves. (A shout out.)

This post is in no way to take away from Palmer Luckey. Palmer is a cool, smart guy who is passionate about VR and is a pioneer in the VR space.

This post is simply to raise awareness and give a shout out to the true mastermind and the true Founder of Oculus VR, Brendan Iribe. If it wasn't for Brendan Iribe, VR wouldn't be where it is today. At all. Neither would Palmer Luckey be where he is today. It was Brendan who took a concept, and was able to scale it in such a short time and turn it into what it is today.

Palmer was chosen by Iribe to be the face and poster-boy for Oculus and for VR. Why? Because Palmer has an amazing story, and a story worth telling: a home-schooled, 17 year old kid brings back VR from the dead from his parents garage and created this amazing piece of technology. This is the story that Brendan was smart enough to see and knew this story would help fund a successful Kickstarter campaign and bring VR into the spotlight. I guess you could say, Palmer was Lucky.

It was Iribe who founded Oculus from the ground up. Don't forget, Iribe, for over a decade has been in the tech industry and sold a successful company (i think he founded one other tech company and sold it as well). Iribe was humble and smart enough to let Palmer get all the credit as Founder of Oculus and creator of Oculus Rift. That is why you never hear Palmer say he is the Co-Founder. Meanwhile the man behind the curtain making all the moves from the very beginning, from the founding of Oculus VR, to the successful Kickstarter campaign, to raising 75 Million during the Series B funding, to masterminding the acquisition of Facebook for 2 billion was all done by the hand Brendan Iribe.

Iribe deserves more credit than he gets. He is the true brains behind this operation. Here is the most amazing part of Iribes story: He gives $31 MILLION dollars out of his own pocket to the University of Maryland to build the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation which will be used primary for VR research.

What kind of Titan do you have to be to give $31,000,000.00 of your own money to help spread the knowledge of VR? A generous one obviously.

So shout of to Brendan Iribe for helping bring Oculus and VR to where it is today and the many others that we never hear about.

Peace.

Submitted April 02, 2015 at 02:58PM by godselite http://ift.tt/1ItSjXa