Microsoft and Oculus Rift

Why Oculus Partnered with Microsoft for its Rift Virtual Reality Headset

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and chief executive Brendan Iribe shed light on why a Microsoft partnership made perfect sense.

Nick Statt | June 17, 2015

Oculus' reasoning for partnering with Microsoft for its Rift virtual reality headset is a simple one: Windows 10.
Over the past couple years, when Oculus employees would run apps or games on a computer connected to a prototype of the company's virtual reality headset, there was a problem. Microsoft's software that powered the computer was confused, thinking the headset was a computer monitor. Icons would move around and the computer would act funny.

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