Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. For the past few years, this has mostly meant building mobile apps that help you share with the people you care about. We have a lot more to do on mobile, but at this point we feel we're in a position where we can start focusing on what platforms will come next to enable even more useful, entertaining and personal experiences.
This is where Oculus comes in. They build virtual reality technology, like the Oculus Rift headset. When you put it on, you enter a completely immersive computer-generated environment, like a game or a movie scene or a place far away. The incredible thing about the technology is that you feel like you're actually present in another place with other people. People who try it say it's different from anything they've ever experienced in their lives.
Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate. The Rift is highly anticipated by the gaming community, and there's a lot of interest from developers in building for this platform. We're going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games. Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook to achieve this.
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@CNBC: BREAKING: Facebook announces it has reached agreement to acquire virtual reality tech company Oculus for a total of approx. $2B. $FB
Hopefully it was the right choice but I think the gravity of the situation like this shoulsn't be ignored. Carmack clearly betrayed the guys who funded his project through kickstarter. I feel like the shift to facebook means its going to be a vr experience for the casual market yet vr seems like a hardcore market to me considering its a personal experience unless facebook creates something as big as sword art online levels of impact but yeah. Carmack needs some explaining to do.
