Carmac left id Software in November 2013 to work full - time as Chief Technical Officer for virtual reality
headset maker Oculus VR.
The social networking company announced in March it reached a $ 2 billion deal to acquire Oculus VR Inc., which owns virtual - reality
headset maker Oculus Rift.
After acquiring virtual reality
headset maker Oculus for $ 2 billion last year, Facebook is looking to cater to the medium by making virtual reality versions of its apps.
Facebook purchased VR
Headset maker Oculus in 2014 for 2 billion dollars, looks like it finally found a spokesperson (pokes - person?)
One person taking up the challenge of Hideo Kojima was Palmer Luckey, creator and founder of VR
headset maker Oculus (and now a bit of a controversial figure thanks to his political involvement) Palmer Luckey.
Facebook set tongues wagging when it paid $ 19 billion for instant - messaging startup WhatsApp last March, then followed it up a month later by shelling out $ 2 billion for virtual reality
headset maker Oculus VR.
It has been revealed the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tested Sony Computer Entertainment's (SCE) Project Morpheus virtual reality (VR) headset for PlayStation 4 before making the decision to purchase Oculus Rift
headset makers Oculus...
David Georgeson, development director for the team's EverQuest franchise, confirmed as much to IGN while speaking about the recent acquisition of Oculus Rift
headset makers Oculus VR by Facebook.
Not exact matches
An
Oculus blog post stated Pebbles would be joining the hardware engineering and computer vision team of the
maker of the
Oculus Rift virtual reality
headset, «to help advance virtual reality, tracking, and human - computer interactions.»
Though the company sells the
Oculus virtual reality
headset, it acquired its
maker and didn't create the original product.
There's been plenty of hype about virtual and augmented reality gaming this year with the recent arrival of first - generation
headsets from Facebook's
Oculus unit and smartphone
maker HTC.
When most people think of virtual reality, they think of 3 - D gaming or
Oculus, the
maker of
headsets that Facebook acquired for $ 2 billion.
Two more virtual reality
headsets are hitting the market from Taiwanese gadget
maker HTC and Facebook's
Oculus VR business unit.
Facebook - owned
Oculus and Taiwanese phone
maker HTC have had to live with these truisms since introducing their respective VR
headsets, the Rift and the Vive, earlier this year.
That created a schism: Companies like Pebble, a smartwatch
maker, and
Oculus, a virtual reality
headset developer, raised millions on crowdfunding sites from eager early customers and used that surge to prove that buyers wanted their fledgling products.
The big winners of Facebook's $ 2 billion deal to buy
Oculus VR, a virtual reality
headset maker, include a roster of elite venture capitalists who invested in the company early on.
The social network is paying $ 400m in cash plus 23.1 m Facebook shares for the
maker of the
Oculus Rift
headset, with a further $ 300m in incentives if it hits certain milestones in the future.
Among its bets was
Oculus VR, a virtual reality
headset maker that was discovered early on by Lonsdale and Koo, who later joined the company's Series A and B rounds.
So when Facebook shocked everyone on Tuesday by announcing it was spending $ 2 billion to buy
Oculus VR, a
maker of virtual reality
headsets, you knew game enthusiasts would have something to say about the deal.
The VR
headset makers announced Lucky's Tale as the one to be surfaced with
Oculus.
The VR
headset makers are all set to ship their devices in the first quarter of 2016 with first VR game for
Oculus Rift being Lucky's Tale.
Qualcomm thinks standalone virtual reality (VR) is the way of the future, and to help move that future along the chip
maker is out with its second reference design
headset on which partners like Google Daydream, HTC and
Oculus will base their own devices.