Hello, beautiful people! This is a very late article on this topic but regardless it is a topic that has had the tech world chatting for hours now; Oculus VR, the makers of the Oculus Rift, is now owned by social media giant Facebook.
Now, I think it would be safe to say that many of you out there know what Facebook is. If not, wow, but it would be a safe bet to say that many are unaware of what the Oculus Rift is. The rift is a virtual reality device that has been in development since 2012, being made to use while playing video games as well as other applications. The Oculus Rift is one of the many success stories that have come out of the woodwork of the funding site Kickstarter.
On March 25, 2014 in a Facebook message, Facebook overlord Mark Zuckerberg announced that they have purchased the Oculus Rift maker with a deal that is worth about 2 billion dollars. This would seem to many like a very confusing thing for a company like Facebook to buy but in these days it seems like more and more companies are getting into areas that they usually would never go to. Examples being Amazons reportedly going into the video game maker department.
In the official press release, Zuckerberg spoke up after the purchasing announcement and said and I quote “ Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate.” So it would seem that the Oculus Rift might be going in a more social and possible everyday used product. Who knows, maybe in five years or so from now we all might be walking around with our own personal VR devices.
Though only the future knows what this means for both parties, all we do know now is that Facebook will continue Oculus VR to continue with their current goals, hopefully with more funding and resources at their disposal.
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