You are invited to a presentation on Friday by Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov, co-founders of Oculus VR. Last week, Facebook announced it is buying the hot virtual reality gaming company for $2 billion. Following the talk, you will be able to meet Oculus VR team members and learn more about the company’s products.

Speakers: Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe and Chief Software Architect Michael Antonov, both former University of Maryland students

When: Friday, April 4 at 2:00pm

Where: Skinner Building, Room 0200 (http://maps.umd.edu/map/). The Skinner Building is located just off of McKeldin Mall, on the backside of Woods Hall, next door to Marie Mount Hall.

RSVP: Please register at http://ter.ps/OculusRSVP to attend the event. Faculty, staff and students are welcome.

About Oculus VR:

The company launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund development of its first product, the Oculus Rift, a groundbreaking virtual reality headset for immersive gaming. With the support of top video game companies including Valve, Epic Games and Unity, the Kickstarter was an enormous success, raising over $2.4 million in funding. The company hopes that the Facebook deal will make virtual reality cheaper and better. Oculus VR is a sponsor of this weekend’s Bitcamp and Brendan is a keynote speaker at the event.

About Brendan and Michael:

Brendan, Michael and the late Andrew Reisse (in whose memory there is a computer science scholarship) started the company Scaleform while they were students at the University of Maryland. As co-founders, Brendan served as CEO and Michael served as CTO of Scaleform, which was the #1 user interface technology provider in the video game market when Autodesk acquired it in March 2011. Under their leadership, thousands of video game developers worldwide adopted the Scaleform SDK. Prior to co-founding Oculus, Brendan was the chief product officer at Gaikai, the innovative GPU cloud streaming company that was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in July 2012.