Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The VR Experience That May Have Convinced Mark Zuckerberg to Buy Oculus

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What do you do if you're thinking about spending $2 billion on a hot virtual reality company? Well, if you're Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, you go experience cutting-edge virtual reality for yourself.


Weeks before Facebook announced that it had acquired virtual reality gaming headset manufacturer Oculus Rift, Zuckerberg made a private visit to Stanford University. He was there to see one of the country's leading virtual reality experts, Associate Professor Jeremy Bailenson.



Bailenson directs Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, where he conducts variety of virtual reality experiments designed primarily to understanding VR's impact on human behavior Read more...


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