OSSIC Dethrones Oculus as the Highest Grossing VR Kickstarter Ever
OSSIC successfully completed their Kickstarter campaign today, finishing with over 9,600 backers and $2,708,472. That puts them ahead of any VR Kickstarter product ever, including Oculus, the old record holder, who raised $2,437,429 in 2012 before being acquired by Facebook.
The company released a new video today explaining the difference OSSIC X provides over traditional surround sound headphones.
Everyone at OSSIC used to work in audio at Logitech. CEO Jason Riggs started the acoustic department there about 10 years ago. Many of them worked on developing surround sound gaming headphones. Riggs said he and his four co-founders started OSSIC because they knew 3D audio could be done better.
“We found there’s a cap in how accurate you can render 3d audio in headphones if you don’t take into account the device and the anatomy of the listener. When asked about OSSIC’s reason for being, Riggs told us “We started this…to push that final frontier in 3D audio and create something that was a lot more accurate and immersive…It was not the type of breakthrough product that you could do within the confines of a large company…focused on churning out products every 9 months, not digging in for 2-3 years and changing the way products work fundamentally.”
