Pushing beyond its recent acquisition by Facebook for a cool US $2 billion, Oculus VR has now announced that Michael Abrash will join the company as the new Chief Scientist.


Michael Abrash is a rather interesting chap as, according to his CV, he has been both at Microsoft back when Windows NT 3.1 was popular as well as worked at id Software on the original Quake with new Oculus CTO, John Carmack, and switched to Intel for project Larrabee before moving to Valve to work on a virtual-reality project.

While there has been a lot of talk regarding the future of the Oculus VR under Facebook and according to Abrash, the deal was exactly what Oculus VR needed. "I've written before that VR wouldn't become truly great until some company stepped up and invested the considerable capital to build the right hardware – and that it wouldn't be clear that it made sense to spend that capital until VR was truly great. I was afraid that that Catch-22 would cause VR to fail to achieve liftoff", said Abrash in its comment on Oculus VR's blog site.

He also added that he is extremely happy to be working next to John Carmack and that it feels like happy days at id Software, but on steroids since the company is now working on technology which will not just change computer gaming but could potentially change how we react with computers, information and each other.

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Source: OculusVR.com.