After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences," wrote Zuckerberg as he announced the deal. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was certainly excited: he has just agreed to pay $2bn for the company.Ģ This is about more than games for Facebook It raised $2.4m on crowdfunding site Kickstarter to make its Oculus Rift VR headset for gaming, distributing early versions to developers so they could start working with the device. The US company Oculus VR is young – it was founded in 2012 – but its biggest achievement has been to get people excited about VR again.
There was plenty of hype, but the technology didn't catch on – a pattern matched in the mid-1990s with Nintendo's Virtual Boy VR device and then a decade later with headset-less virtual worlds such as Second Life. 1 Oculus Rift is trying to reboot virtual realityįor many, virtual reality (VR) brings to mind images of people in the 1980s wearing headsets and gloves to interact with games and virtual worlds.
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