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Ted Cruz Questions Mark Zuckerberg On Why He Fired Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey

April 11, 2018 Griffin Streeter

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was called into a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday to explain his reasoning behind why our data was being sold without a user’s permission. In this instance, he was grilled with questions by dozens of senators and was told to explain why Cambridge Analytica had such easy access to […]

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The Oculus Go Won’t Be The Big VR Announcement They Had Planned For Facebook F8 Conference

March 17, 2018 SJ Kim

A couple weeks back, some of the Facebook team members indicated that they will be announcing their biggest VR/AR news at the upcoming F8 conference in May. This includes the VP of VR/AR at Facebook, Andrew Bosworth, who states that they’ll be sharing their “biggest AR/VR news to date.” Under 70 days to go until […]

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Weekend Roundup 2-25-2018: Top Stories From The Last 7 Days

February 25, 2018 SJ Kim

There were some interesting story lines that developed this week and we’re here to cover it all. Make sure to take a look at the stop stories listed below. Top Stories From The Last 7 Days LEGOLAND Is Opening Up Their First VR Roller Coaster Ride Called ‘The Great Lego Race’ LEGO has been one […]

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Oculus Connect 4: Live Updates

October 11, 2017 SJ Kim

During today’s OC4 event we’ll be posting live updates on this article for the latest news and announcements from the Oculus and Facebook team. We’ll be live on the floor at the event center covering all the detailed news and trying out new games, titles, software, and hardware. Mark Zuckerberg will be kicking things off at […]

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Facebook Acquires Computer Vision Startup Focused On Adding Digital Objects Into Videos

August 11, 2017 SJ Kim

It’s been confirmed by Facebook that the social media giant has acquired a computer vision company called Fayteq that focuses on adding digital images to videos. The German startup company builds add-ons for video editing suites such as Adobe After Effects that can add and remove whole objects from captured videos using their computer vision technology. […]

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Judge Calls For War Between Oculus And Zenimax To End

June 22, 2017 SJ Kim

Oculus and Zenimax have now been in quarrel for quite some time now as the two behemoth companies battle out allegations of IP theft that powers the Rift headset today. Earlier this year, the Jury awarded Zenimax $500 million pinning Oculus against the wall. But this is not the ending. Facebook owned Oculus have appealed the […]

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Oculus’ First Hire Leaves Company for New Opportunity

May 24, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

Chris Dycus, hardware engineer at Facebook’s Oculus, left the company he helped establish for a new opportunity that he “just can’t pass up”. Dycus has been at Oculus since 2012, while it was still a startup. He was hired around the time of Oculus’ historic Kickstarter campaign for the Rift VR headset, which raised over $2 million. Dycus […]

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