Английская Википедия:Brendan Iribe

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Brendan Trexler Iribe (Шаблон:IPAc-en; born August 12, 1979) is an American game programmer, entrepreneur and co-founder of Oculus VR, Inc. and Scaleform. He is the managing partner at BIG Ventures, an early-stage venture fund.

Early life and education

Iribe was born and grew up in Maryland. He graduated from Atholton High School in Howard County, Maryland and then attended the University of Maryland, College Park,[1] majoring in Computer Science which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences in College Park for two semesters before dropping out to work as a freelance programmer.[2][3][4]

Career

He started his career as a game programmer and worked on the user interface of Civilization IV.[1] He was cofounder/CEO of Scaleform, a user interface technology provider for PC games.[1][5] After Scaleform was sold to Autodesk, he worked as product team lead at Gaikai.[6] In August 2012, he departed Gaikai and became the new CEO of Oculus VR after their Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift VR Headset raised $2.4 million.[7] In December 2016, he stepped down from the role of CEO and decided to lead its newly created PC VR group.[8] In October 2018, Brendan announced in a Facebook post he would be departing Oculus and its parent company Facebook, with no mention of future plans.[9] In December 2018, he invested in Sketchfab, an online platform for 3D and VR content.[10]

Philanthropy

In 2014 Iribe announced a $31 million dollar donation to his alma mater, University of Maryland, College Park.[11] $30 million was for the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering, a new building which includes labs for virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, and artificial intelligence.[12] The remaining $1 million was donated to establish a scholarship fund. Iribe's mother, Elizabeth Iribe, also gave $3 million to set up two endowed chairs in the school's computer science department - the Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair and the Paul Chrisman Iribe Chair (named after her brother).[13]

Racing Record

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

Since departing Oculus in 2018, Iribe has focused his time on racing exotic cars manufactured by companies like McLaren and Ferrari.[14][15]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Class Make Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Шаблон:Tooltip Points
2021 Inception Racing with Optimum Motorsport GTD McLaren 720S GT3 McLaren M840T 4.0L Turbo V8 DAY SEB MDO DET WGL WGL LIM
ELK LGA LBH VIR PET
Шаблон:Small
63rd 209
2022 Inception Racing GTD McLaren 720S GT3 McLaren M840T 4.0L Turbo V8 DAY
Шаблон:Small
SEB
Шаблон:Small
LBH
Шаблон:Small
LGA
Шаблон:Small
MDO
Шаблон:Small
DET WGL
Шаблон:Small
MOS
LIM
ELK
VIR
PET
2
12th 1644
2023 Inception Racing GTD McLaren 720S GT3 Evo McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8 DAY
3
SEB
4
LBH
6
MON
5
WGL
15
MOS
2
LIM
13
ELK
2
VIR
7
IMS
16
PET
19
6th 2853
2024 Inception Racing GTD McLaren 720S GT3 Evo McLaren M840T 4.0 L Turbo V8 DAY SEB LBH LGA WGL MOS ELK VIR IMS PET
Source:[16]

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Шаблон:Tooltip Шаблон:Tooltip
2021 Шаблон:Flagicon Inception Racing Шаблон:Flagicon Ben Barnicoat
Шаблон:Flagicon Ollie Millroy
Ferrari 488 GTE Evo GTE
Am
327 41st 12th
2022 Шаблон:Flagicon Team Project 1 Шаблон:Flagicon Ben Barnicoat
Шаблон:Flagicon Ollie Millroy
Porsche 911 RSR-19 GTE
Am
241 DNF DNF
Source:[16]

References

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External links

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