Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Facebook invest acquires Oculus Rift VR company in Virtual Reality for $2 billions

Facebook new deal is the acquisition of Oculus Rift VR firm which produces a type of virtual reality (VR) glasses and 3D virtual reality augmented glasses as we can see on the video from Oculus Rift Development Kit. 

Oculus Rift started financement with Kickstarter and was bought by Facebook $400 million cash and 23.1 million Facebook shares, plus another $300 million in potential bonuses, announced the purchase via a blog post.

Mark Zuckerberg defined VR as the "next major computing platform after mobile"


Oculus Rift is similar to the project from SONY called Project Morpheusthe new PlayStation 4 VR headset, have been already described superior to Oculus Rift. 


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