{"id":7244,"date":"2020-08-18T19:01:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T19:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/oculus-and-facebook-accounts-are-merging-and-oculus-owners-aren-t-happy-with-it"},"modified":"2024-07-22T07:35:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:35:41","slug":"oculus-and-facebook-accounts-are-merging-and-oculus-owners-aren-t-happy-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/oculus-and-facebook-accounts-are-merging-and-oculus-owners-aren-t-happy-with-it","title":{"rendered":"Oculus and Facebook accounts are merging, and Oculus owners aren’t happy with it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oculus VR is one of the pioneers of the modern VR headsets.<\/p>\n

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The company was founded back in 2012, by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov and Nate Mitchell.<\/p>\n

Their very first headset was Oculus Rift, which was successfully funded via Kickstarter campaign, which raised $2.4 million, ten times the original goal of $250,000.<\/p>\n

Oculus quickly became quite big, and back then VR was seen as a future of gaming (it still is, but that future still looks distant), and several companies were interested in buying the company.<\/p>\n

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\nOculus Quest (Picture: Facebook)<\/span><\/p>\n

It was eventually acquired by Facebook in March 2014, for US$2.3 billion in cash and stock.<\/p>\n

Their current main headsets are Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S, and they are both quite successful. In June 2019 Oculus announced it sold $5 million worth of content<\/a> for the Oculus Quest in just 2 weeks.<\/p>\n