Big news: I've joined Oculus!!!!!!!!

Post by **android78** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:06 pm

Wow... 6 pages of congrats! Seems I'm late to the party.

All the same, I'm glad you'll be playing your part in a more official capacity. It seems you've always been helping the progress of 3D in whatever ways you've been able, at least since I found this forum anyway.
Good work on getting the job. Also, hope all goes well with the move!

Post by **Octavion** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:14 pm

Grats bud, I had a gut feeling sooner or later you'd be migrating over.

Post by **defactoman** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:44 pm

Great job. You've shown yourself to be level headed, patient, knowledgeable and engaging. I think it's great.

Post by **zemmix** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:59 pm

Congratulations! I am super jealous. This can only mean good things to come.

Post by **Oneironaut** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:23 pm

What an amazing ride is has been to witness. The seeds for the future of VR are being sown right in front of our eyes.

Congrats!

Post by **quietboy** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:42 pm

congrats cyber! if oculus team need an online graphic design employee just let me know

Post by **omeDev** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:00 pm

I know that I'm new here. but I still want to say congratz.

Post by **Mel** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:54 pm

Well done, Cyber. Looking forward to your future postings with official Oculus status backing them.

Post by **druidsbane** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:09 pm

Congrats!!!!

Post by **V73v3n** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:37 pm

Congrats Cyber

Post by **Direlight** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:48 pm

It's good Palmer hires talented people. He's trying to start a new industry world-wide. Really hope people at Microsoft and Google standardize 6 DOF VR interface. VR could be bigger then arcades in the 80's and 90's.

Post by **cybereality** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:53 pm

Thanks, guys. It really means a lot to me.

Post by **bboyza** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:40 am

That's awesome news! Hope to get some nice inside info on the forums / oculus community forums.

Post by **adventurer** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:24 am

what a great news! congrat! hope you and Palmer will bring greater VR for us!

Post by **SartreFan** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:41 am

Congratulations on getting a dream job! Man I am envious

Post by **wtfosaurus** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:45 am

Awesome news, Congratulations! Looking forward to everything coming out of that office!

Post by **yautjacetanu** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:15 am

Wow Cyber well done!

Obviously Palmer's oculus rift was the first thing that brought me here. But for a while I basically tried to keep up on everything PalmerTech and you said. Your driver was the thing that made me go ahead and pre-order but then I've really loved your enthusiasm for pretty much everything. Whenever I read anything on these forums, especially if they are about some new tech I'll usually find you're posting something about how that thing is really cool or exciting.

I find techy geeky communities tend to be full of lots of negativity of fanboism. Where people try and shoot down anything. But basically all your posts are positive and its really refreshing to see that in the geek community!

So I'm pretty excited that any money I give to oculus will sort of make its way back to you

Post by **zino** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:08 am

Congratulations Cyber! We'll be expecting great things from you.

Post by **Okta** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:04 am

I had a feeling this was coming. Big congrats Cyber

Post by **marbas** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:08 am

Congrats Cyber! Way to go. Bravo!

Post by **mrfahrenheit94** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:13 am

Congrats!! I knew this would happen sooner or later. Heck,I asked Palmer himself during the AMA if he was gonna hire you, but at that point he just responded that he liked what you were doing. Best of luck!

Post by **MSat** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:24 am

yautjacetanu wrote:
I find techy geeky communities tend to be full of lots of negativity of fanboism. Where people try and shoot down anything. But basically all your posts are positive and its really refreshing to see that in the geek community!

+10000000000000000000

As his dedication and helpfulness to this community proves, there's unlikely a better man for the job.

Post by **SanctionOne** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:02 am

You will do great! Thank you for all of your hard work with the drivers too, the community will definitely need a guy like you. Thanks man!

Post by **drifter** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:18 am

Just one word :
Doooopeeeeee

Post by **SiggiG** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:39 am

This is great! Congrats

Post by **DT4VR** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:36 am

Congrats Cyber!!!

Post by **yautjacetanu** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:05 pm

How does this impact your driver?

Post by **brantlew** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:51 am

yautjacetanu wrote:How does this impact your driver?

The driver has been open-sourced.

Post by **8bit** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:45 am

Cyber, congratulations man you totally deserve it.

Post by **BOLL** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:54 am

Awesome for sure! You first mission will be to set up live webcams at the office so we can be part of the adventure!

eeeh....

Post by **TheLookingGlass** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:34 am

Congrats Cyber! I haven't been around here long but I've seen the hard work you put in through the years managing the forum, not to mention your awesome driver! I'm happy for you and jealous at the same time

like everyone else here

Post by **yautjacetanu** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:41 am

The driver has been open-sourced.

Right but that doesn't mean too much unless lots of other talented people build a community around it. Dumping open source code is a helpful seed but it is only a seed.

If cyber is able to develop it as part of his Job that is more likely to happen. If he isn't.. then its still possible but will happen differently.

Post by **Pingles** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:43 pm

If they put that in his job description then that would be awesome.

Otherwise he's done his share. The Oculus Rift is now his career. Asking him to spend his spare time coding Oculus Rift stuff is a bit harsh in my eyes.

He's done the lion's share of work and I think it would be awesome if someone took up the torch and ran with it.

Post by **Kazioo** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 3:52 pm

yautjacetanu wrote:
The driver has been open-sourced.
Right but that doesn't mean too much unless lots of other talented people build a community around it.

He resigned active development of the driver the moment he decided to release it as open source, so the fact he is working for Oculus now doesn't change much.

Post by **GeraldT** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:35 pm

I very much doubt there will ever be an official version of the driver. Let's just hope he will find the time in his free time to add further to it.
And also hope that there will be more and more useful input the more Rifts are out there. So far other have contributed too!

Post by **cybereality** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:07 pm

Well I am not going to be able to have an active development role on the driver. I will be around to help people in the community if they want to become a contributer.And I can probably make some small updates (like support of the Rift tracker) but not much more than that. It's just that I won't have the time to be working on it seriously, so I thought it was a better idea to put it in the hands of the community. I think that was the best thing for everyone.

Post by **GeraldT** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:15 pm

And we are really grateful for that ... and investing the time to integrate "small updates" like the Rift tracker is something we especially appreciate

It's the little things, that add up to making something like the Rift a success

Post by **2EyeGuy** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:11 am

So, what are you going to be working on with your new job?

Post by **CyberVillain** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:43 am

Congrats CR, totally missed this!

Post by **urban** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:56 am

Congrats!!!!!