Oculus Rift dev kits are starting to make their way onto the workbenches of makers around the globe. Some are even going so far as to tear open the hardware and see how they can improve it.

The Oculus Rift CV1 paved the way for modern VR by making ... meaning users had to wait until the release of the Oculus Touch motion controls to gain access to hand-tracking facilities.

With the Gear VR, you’re paying for software optimization, a better control system than Cardboard ... t be powered by a mobile phone. The Oculus Rift, Valve and HTC’s Vive, and Sony ...

[WayneKeenan] wrote a proof-of-concept virtual reality system that used a Raspberry Pi and an Oculus Rift. It was about a thousand lines of Python and with a battery pack it was even portable.