Brendan Iribe
| Brendan Iribe | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 12, 1979 |
| Residence | Menlo Park, California |
| Occupation | CEO, Oculus VR, Inc. |
| Known for | Oculus VR, Inc. |
Brendan Iribe (born August 12, 1979) is an American game programmer and the co-founder of Oculus VR, Inc.. Iribe started his career as a game programmer and worked on the user interface of Civilization IV.[1] He then was the cofounder and CEO of Scaleform, the user interface technology provider for PC games. After Scaleform was sold to Autodesk he worked as product team lead at Gaikai. In 2012 he got together with Palmer Luckey to start a kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift VR Headset, which was at the time the most successful ever on the platform, raking in over 2.4 Million Dollars.[2] Iribe took the position of CEO at the newly founded Oculus VR.
Biography
Early life and education
Iribe was born and grew up in Maryland. He graduated from Atholton High School in Howard County, Maryland and then attended the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences in College Park for two semesters before dropping out to work as a freelance programmer.[3]
References
- ↑ "Crunch Base: Brendan Iribe". Crunchbase.com. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- ↑ "Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game". Kickstarter. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
- ↑ "Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Donates $31M To Build VR Lab At His Alma Mater University Of Maryland". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2015-08-21.