I finally ordered the rift after reading about cyberreality's driver. I feel terrible as both Carmack and Palmer kept saying that consumers shouldn't order it and this is for developers. But the more they described what they meant by a developer (enthusiast, early adopter, tinkerer who mods their case), the more I felt I needed to have it. I mean having John Carmack tell me over and over again not to buy it made it really difficult not to buy it! Its a shame palmer is not making more of a profit from it because it would have been a genius marketing tool and i would definitely paid at least $100 more.
In fact that is my main worry about this whole thing. I hope they get their business model right. With the original dream being an "open source" and palmer putting so much on the forums there is a worry that someone like Sony would just swoop in and build it themselves without the attention to detail Palmer (and Carmack) seems to have, killing off Occulus as a viable business but also killing off consumer confidence in VR. I'm guessing with the massive amount of geeks (such as the reddit community) on Palmer's side it would be quite difficult for a corporate feeling company to get in though.
I dunno if I count as a developer (I build web applications but do everything that isn't programming!) but one of the most fun gaming experiences I ever had was being involved with the Star Wars Galaxies discussion forums and then the beta. I learnt about online communities and how to write forum posts in a busy environment and for that game I built my first database driven website. From that experience one thing lead directly to another that meant I could almost start the company I'm in today
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So looking forward to it!