Oculus Rift Kickstarter backers will get a free consumer edition

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http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KJCfGUOYjSNFr510RYMSWA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PT EzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/verge.vox.com/87f9ee624391a7e1d78ff08da0666a73 (http://news.yahoo.com/oculus-rift-kickstarter-backers-free-152627731.html)Oculus will be shipping a consumer version of its Rift VR headset to people who backed the-original Kickstarter project in 2012. In a post this morning, the company announced a "Kickstarter Edition" of the Rift for any of the 9,522 original supporters who pledged enough for a development kit — by our count, around 7,500. Oculus backers have been on one of the wildest rides we've seen since Kickstarter launched.-Luckey has said he would originally have been happy selling even 300 development kits — the company rejected a $500,000 goal as potentially too high, only to raise $2.4 million by the end of the campaign. Less than two years later, Oculus was bought by Facebook for $2 billion,-to the chagrin of a few backers.



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