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The first Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets start to ship to backers

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The first Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets have shipped, according to Oculus VR chief executive Brendan Iribe.

The headsets should start arriving on launch day on March 28, Iribe said in a tweet.

The Oculus VR Kickstarter campaign raised $10 million from backers in 2012. That means there should be quite a backlog for Oculus to fill before it starts getting to preorder customers. Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR, also tweeted.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.