Facebook just bought Oculus: the company who released the virtual reality headset for $2 Billion
Facebook is getting wild in buying all the upcoming companies starting from Whatsapp and now Oculus
Facebook has been on the move this year buying up major and upstart companies, the first of which shortly after the year’s start with WhatsApp, and now more interestingly they’ve acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion.
Oculus has been a rapidly growing VR company since it’s initial kickstarter campaign back in 2012, and has been the foremost development team in consumer VR technologies with over 75,000 developers already trying to get their hands on devkits. While Oculus has been primarily concerned with their VR technology’s uses in video games, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg has expressed a great deal of interest with the technology’s applications in social media.
“Oculus has the potential to be the most social platform ever,” said Zuckerburg. “Imagine not just sharing moments with your friends online but entire experiences”. Zuckerburg is looking at this as a long term investment for the ways consumer tech will grow in the coming years, and has stated that there will be no changes to the current Oculus team as “all the best and the brightest in the space already work there”.
Does this mean that in ten years time we can look forward to not just seeing pictures of our friend’s food and meals, but actually experience first person them eating it? We’ll just have to see what kind of future Facebook builds with the investment! Make sure to let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Source: Time
Oculus has been a rapidly growing VR company since it’s initial kickstarter campaign back in 2012, and has been the foremost development team in consumer VR technologies with over 75,000 developers already trying to get their hands on devkits. While Oculus has been primarily concerned with their VR technology’s uses in video games, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg has expressed a great deal of interest with the technology’s applications in social media.
“Oculus has the potential to be the most social platform ever,” said Zuckerburg. “Imagine not just sharing moments with your friends online but entire experiences”. Zuckerburg is looking at this as a long term investment for the ways consumer tech will grow in the coming years, and has stated that there will be no changes to the current Oculus team as “all the best and the brightest in the space already work there”.
Does this mean that in ten years time we can look forward to not just seeing pictures of our friend’s food and meals, but actually experience first person them eating it? We’ll just have to see what kind of future Facebook builds with the investment! Make sure to let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Source: Time