Palmer Luckey was born and raised in Long Beach, California and grew up with three younger sisters, a mother, and a father who worked as a car salesman. As a child he was homeschooled by his mother, took sailing lessons, and had an interest in electronics. He took community college courses at Golden West College and Long Beach Community College beginning at the age of 14 or 15, and started at California State University in 2010 as journalism major. He also wrote and served as the online editor for one of the university's student-run newspapers The Daily49er. From ages 11 to 16, Palmer Luckey experimented with a variety of high-voltage electronics projects including coil guns, tesla coils, and lasers. He built a PC costing tens of thousands …show more content…
By age 18 he created his first VR prototype in his parent’s garage, in 2011, called CR1 and it featured a 90-degree field of view. Over the next 10 months he developed a series of prototypes exploring features like 3D stereoscopy, wireless, and extreme 270-degree field-of-view, while also decreasing size and weight. His sixth generation unit was name the “Rift” which was intended to be sold as a do it yourself kit for fellow VR enthusiasts instead of a pre-assembled consumer device. John Carmack from id Software, a notable game developer and regular at MTBS3D, requested one of the prototype headsets, made improvements to it, and demoed a modified version of id Software's Doom 3 BFG Edition at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012. Soon after, Luckey dropped out of college to focus entirely on the Oculus VR due to the resulting attention from the Expo. Luckey first showed a prototype of his device to former executive of Gaikai and Scaleform, Brendan Iribe who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Rift’s Kickstarter campaign. Iribe joined as Oculus Rifts CEO and Michael Antonov (the former CTO of Scaleform) join as chief software architect. Luckey also received endorsements from Valve’s managing director Gabe Newell and the software veteran Michael Abrash who became the Chief Scientist
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a story literally exaggerated to its limit by showing, in the near future, what it means to be equal in every way by having people not being able to show any form of intelligence or creativity whatsoever. When Harrison Bergeron breaks the chains of government oppression, he dies for his failed cause. He dies because he chooses not to conform to the rest of his oppressive society. His parents, George and Hazel, who are nothing more than two bodies under the government’s mind control, can do nothing to save their son or seek justice for his death. The story is not only a reflection of the author’s concern with controlling the masses through
High school career started when he attended Collegiate School, a preparatory school in Richmond, Virginia.
Andrew luck was a young football player out of Stanford. He was drafted in 2012-2013. He was drafted to the Indianapolis Colts.
Is Jake Arrieta a better pitcher than Clayton Kershaw? From the many critics and analysts of baseball, some would agree that Arrieta is the superior athlete, and some would disagree and say that Kershaw is better. I argue that Arrieta is the better pitcher, according to analysts and statistics.
Based on my personality and skill set I have chosen Carson Wentz as the Athlete represents me.
Chester Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont on October 5, 1829. He was raised by his parents, named William And Malvina Arthur. His father was an immigrant from Ireland and his mother was from Vermont. Chester's father worked as a Baptist and his mother didn't have an occupation like most women in that time period. Eventually, Chester moved to New York for his father's work. There he attended Union College where he graduated in 1848. He became a school teacher after completing college. He then attended national law school and became a lawyer. He practiced law in New York City and one many big civil cases. Chester then became involved in politics.
Before he worked with electric tools, and was a blacksmith making lots of money in progress. Most of the time he liked to experiment with electromagnets. Eventually he got married to the daughter of a local merchant.
Is Tom Brady really the G.O.A.T? Nobody thought they would be talking about Tom Brady going down as the best Quarterback in football history. Brady has been in the league for 15 years and has broken so many records and has some more to break. Brady also has a 172-51 win to lose record which is 3rd of all time for a Quarterback, he also has a couple more years in the League.
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"If I tried to get away with it, then other people'd get away with itand soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again " This statement by George Bergeron sums up Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s short story "Harrison Bergeron" in one line. "Harrison Bergeron" is the story of a futuristic United States in the year 2081, where all individuals are made equal regardless of what their natural born characteristics were. They are made equal both mentally and physically, all to the same measure of intelligence and strength. In "Harrison Bergeron" the society has become apathetic and equally conformed because of the power of the Handicapper General, the forced use of handicaps, and the people within the society who continued to let
In the small town of Coventry, Connecticut on June 6, 1755, Nathan Hale was born, to devout Puritans, Deacon Richard Hale and Elizabeth Strong Hale. Hale was the sixth of twelve children. The Hale’s had 9 boys and 3 girls. Hale’s parents were concerned that he wouldn’t survive his first year, like the two children before Hale (Lough 8). Even though he was a sickly small child, with weak lungs he did not let that stop him from loving the outdoors (Lough). As Hale got older, he became stronger. Sadly Hale’s mother Elizabeth died when he was 12 shortly after giving birth to her 12th child (Tracy 16). It is thought that Hale’s father Richard remarried a wealthy widow, Abigail Cobb Adams, 2 years after Elizabeth’s death, who
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an inventor and is responsible for the world as we know it. He developed alternating current, the Tesla coil, and wireless connectivity. Today he is regarded as one of the most important geniuses in history, but while he was alive, his ideas were largely unsupported.
Nikola Tesla is regarded as one of the most brilliant inventors in history. His work provided the basis for the modern alternating current power system, as well as having developed both radio and the fluorescent light bulb. He worked with Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, among others. He was also widely misunderstood by his peers and the public at large.
Farnsworth (T.V). The design, construction and manufacturing of useful devices and systems began with the implementation of Michael Faraday’s Law, one of the fundamental laws in electrical engineering, that states that the voltage in a circuit is proportional to the rate of change in the magnetic field through the circuit (www.livescience.com “What is Electrical Engineering?” by Jim Lucas)
His dream was about to come true when George Westinghouse hired him. George let Tesla develop all his ideas and Tesla finally produced his invention alternating current (AC). He then became a U.S. citizen in 1889. In 1891 he made another invention called the Tesla coil. It helped create many other inventions that used the Tesla coil the television, a computer screen, the radio, and other electronics. Then Tesla was struck by depression because of his mother's death in 1892. By about 1895 Tesla became a poor man due to a number of failed inventions, so he tried to get a contract with the military. His first attempt to get a military contract was automated submarines and boats, but the government didn't accept his offer. He finally got a military contract from the German Marine High Command. He made turbines for the Germans, and it's thought to be used for their U-boats. Soon After World War 1 started and Tesla had to cancel his concert or he would have been arrested for treason. Tesla was broke again and was desperate for money so he attempted to build a death ray for the U.S. military. It's unknown what components Tesla used for this machine and if it even worked. He said that it would be used to defend of American soil; nevertheless the military rejected his offer. Tesla made one last effort to get a military contract. He would make a sending