The company held a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign for its Oculus Rift headset last year, raising $2.4 million (nearly 10 times the original goal) from 9,522 backers.
Months before Oculus and HTC had even released their flagship headsets, Jaunt had already raised $100 million from investors with the promise that it was going to capture and gobble up the new VR medium before people event knew what it was.
In the meantime, an eye-tracking VR headset startup called Fove has raised $11 million, while SensoMotoric Instruments has brought eye-tracking to avatars in Altspace's social VR construct.
We filed into the studio, which was not unlike a night club, with the teacher on a raised platform, wearing a headset and d.j.'ing a playlist.
The company has been demoing its headset for a while now and also raised almost $300,000 on Indiegogo.
Facebook's purchase of the company, which has talent on its books such as Doom creator John Carmack, raised questions about how precisely a VR headset could be of any use to a social network.
EEG sensors of the kind used in Neurosis have been the subject of considerable scrutiny in the past two years, particularly since the maker, Emotiv, raised $1.6m on Kickstarter for its first commercial headset.
Formed by 21-year-old college drop-out Palmer Luckey, Oculus VR hit the headlines in 2012 when the company raised over $2m to manufacture its Oculus Rift VR headset on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter.
Chief among the issues raised were those of privacy related to the headset's ability to surreptitiously photograph and record video of strangers in public places, and even more private ones, like restrooms.
Meanwhile, a Florida-based startup called Magic Leap has raised an astonishing $1.4bn in funding for its AR headset and technology, giving only a few teasers on what it looks like and how it will work.
