Chief architect vr goggles simulator#

Peterson has been splitting her time between Irvine and Cincinnati, where she has been working on a new 44,000-square-foot recycling plant that opens March 20. She joined E-Waste after leaving Surf Investments Ltd. Julie Peterson, has been appointed president of the e-waste division of E-Waste Systems Inc., an Irvine electronic waste firm. Atkinson previously served as vice president of development at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa. She will help raise funds for expansion of the museum’s current location and for a center opening in the San Fernando Valley. Jennifer Atkinson is now vice president of development at Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana. Oculus shipped more than 60,000 of the kits, which have been adopted by researchers across industries as varied as space exploration, manufacturing, architecture and, of course, video games. The improvements helped garner a $75 million round of fundraising in December to jump-start production of consumer-ready Rift goggles.Īt $300, the low-resolution Rift developer goggles began shipping last March but made some users sick because of limited features, like incomplete movement tracking.

Chief architect vr goggles simulator#

Late last year, Oculus’ prototype goggles solved a lingering problem with simulator sickness. Valve and Oculus have collaborated on VR research, betting that advances arriving this decade – such as low-cost motion sensors and super-detailed screens – would provide the technical and cost improvements necessary to make VR something people could buy in a store and experience in their homes. Participants said they felt as though they were present in another place they saw inside the headset. A person wears a headset and stands in the center of the room with markers placed along the walls to track movement. In January, Valve demonstrated a highly immersive VR room to game developers. Binstock will head the company’s research and development from a new Oculus office in Seattle, less than 30 minutes away from Valve’s headquarters. The well-funded Irvine startup Oculus VR this week hired Binstock away from video game maker Valve, adding another pioneering developer to the fast-growing company’s stable of about 100 people – employees and contractors – working on mass- market virtual reality experiences. Could “Star Trek’s” Holodeck be built in Seattle by a man named Atman Binstock?