Facebook’s Oculus VR Buys Startup Surreal Vision

[box type=”info”]The Architechnologist first introduced Surreal Vision back in September 2014 in an article called “Oculus Rift, The Carpet Always Matches The Drapes” while the company was still a project from the Imperial College London.
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Facebook’s Oculus VR unit has acquired Surreal Vision, a company best known for creating a program which virtually projected Facebook’s website onto a wall inside an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. No sale price was disclosed but the company had four employees, according to LinkedIn. It’s an interesting purchase by Oculus, which itself was acquired by… Continue reading “Facebook’s Oculus VR Buys Startup Surreal Vision”

Facebook Will Soon Connect Your Home Devices

Facebook could soon invade your home, no longer connecting you to just your friends but also to your home appliances and other “smart” devices. To make it happen, Facebook on Wednesday introduced new services through Parse, its mobile app development platform, that will help software developers build for the Internet of Things. Parse founder and CEO… Continue reading “Facebook Will Soon Connect Your Home Devices”