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Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ

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Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company’s career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. million of it spent in 2018 so far. Image courtesy BuildZoom.

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Oculus Is Hiring More Than 100 People Amid AR Expansion

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With the full weight of Facebook behind it, Oculus is no stranger to hiring sprees. The Oculus Rift maker has over 100 positions listed on its Careers page across a range of fields right now. On top of the hires, Oculus recently put out a call for research in several fields with a $250,000 grant on offer.

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Facebook buys game studio BigBox VR

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Facebook has bought several virtual reality game studios over the past couple years, and they added one more to their portfolio Friday with the acquisition of Seattle-based BigBox VR. Facebooks Oculus Quest 2 retails for $299 and the company has said that it outsold all of its previous devices combined in its first few months.

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Oculus Is Hiring More Than 100 People Amid AR ExpansionThe.

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Oculus Is Hiring More Than 100 People Amid AR Expansion The Oculus Rift maker has over 100 positions listed on its Careers page across a range of fields right now. 31 of these listings are for roles at Oculus Research, the Redmond-based division of the company dedicated to long-term study of the future of VR in all areas.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

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More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending. Where it gets more interesting is panning back to a longer time period in which R&D efforts had time to gear up, including Oculus Reality Labs in Seattle, led by Michael Abrash.

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

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VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. Because even if Oculus sold 100 million VR headsets, but no third-party developer could make $1 million in revenue, then it wouldn’t be a platform; it would be a successful product for Oculus, but it wouldn’t be a viable platform to create an ecosystem of successful developers.

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Windows Reveals New Mixed Reality Controllers

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Microsoft brought their latest mixed reality efforts front and center Thursday at its Build conference in Seattle. On top of partner device and price announcements that challenge the likes of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Microsoft also unveiled new controllers as part of mixed reality headset bundles. These controllers look familiar.