Virtual reality headsets: How Oculus Rift has started a games revolution

Oculus Rift is yet to go on sale, but it is the talk of the games world and already supported in titles including Elite Dangerous; Narcosis; Deep; and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes■ See more from the 20 innovations for 2015 seriesIn 2012, 19-year-old Palmer Luckey launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise $250,000 to build development kits of a virtual reality headset called the Oculus Rift. The campaign closed at $2.4m. In March, Facebook acquired Luckey’s company, Oculus VR, for $2bn.I