The Oculus Rift is a new set of 3D virtual reality gaming goggles that is, by consensus, one of the most exciting, innovative and truly different new technology products of the last several years. Anyone you talk to who has tested Rift will invariably invoke the word "immersive" to describe the experience, and it's true: when you are within Rift, staring at the dual screens in front of your eyes, you have plunged into another, more distant world, and you tend to lose all sense of perspective of the physical, real one you actually occupy.