Brendan Iribe

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Brendan Iribe
Born (1979-08-12) August 12, 1979 (age 44)
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, a 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]

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