Facebook's shopping spree continues. The social network, which pad $19 billion for messaging service WhatsApp in February, has made a deal to buy virtual reality game company Oculus for $2 billion.

Facebook is to acquire Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, it has been revealed. The social media giant reached an agreement worth approximately $2 billion, which ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will acquire two-year-old Oculus VR Inc, a maker of virtual-reality glasses for gaming, for $2 billion, buying its way into the fast-growing wearable devices ...

Facebook's purchase of virtual reality company Oculus for $2 billion has turned tech theorists into futurists. What plans does the world's biggest social network want with an unproven helmet gizmo?

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - To help treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, Jennifer Patterson turned to a gadget typically associated with video games: the virtual reality headset from ...

The games industry moves pretty fast, and there's a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what's next without so much worrying about what came before. That said, even an industry so ...

Facebook’s really big plans for virtual reality He joins the interview immediately, projecting sunshine. This won’t be a grind, like his recent emergency meeting with U.S. conservatives, convincing ...

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Facebook has played an important role in bringing the Oculus Rift to market as the owner of the company that birthed it, but the headset's inventor does not believe the future of VR lies with the ...

A pop-up stall in the shape of a shipping crate with “Facebook” written on its side was stationed in Quincy Market this week. Inside, people wearing huge goggles walked around with facial expressions ...

Facebook is closing around 200 of its 500 Oculus virtual reality demo stations at Best Buy locations across the US, Business Insider has learned. The scaling back of Facebook’s first big retail push ...