Oculus VR donates virtual reality headsets to Major League Hacking group

Oculus VR, the virtual reality division of Facebook, is donating a number of Oculus Rift headsets to tech education group Major League Hacking. The idea is to power the next generation of learning about VR starting at the high school and college levels via hackathons.

Major League Hacking runs the official student hackathon league sponsored by Dell and Intel. Oculus VR will be contributing Oculus Rifts to support VR learning in classrooms and hackathons around the world. Brendan Iribe, the CEO and cofounder of Oculus, will share more about this donation at BitCamp, a 36-hour MLH member hackathon running April 8-10 at the University of Maryland in College Park.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.