Despite the outrage from overly dramatic internet naysayers regarding the recent acquisition of Oculus by Facebook a senior Valve VR employee, Michael Abrash, has jumped ship to join Oculus as their chief scientist. During his time at Valve he assisted in spearheading their VR development as the company's head of research and development and has commented he believes that with Facebook bankrolling Oculus they will be able to "push VR as far as it can go"

Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR – and some of them are hard indeed.

I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can. It’s great to be working with John [Carmack] again after all these years, this time, we're working on technology that will change not just computer gaming, but potentially how all of us interact with computers, information, and each other every day.

I think it’s going to be the biggest game-changer I’ve ever seen – and I've seen quite a lot over the last 57 years.

Posted: Mar 29, 2014 6:41 am
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