Virtual Reality Could Be The Toughest Fight Yet For Facebook
The Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg says the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset could be the future of the internet....
But on the Virtual Reality front, to get there, he needs to do battle with the entire gaming industry.
Just before the Virtual Reality Oculus Rift Kickstarter campaign launched, Brendan Iribe brought what looked like a large hunk of plastic into the San Francisco offices of Unity Technologies, whose game development platform is one of the industry's most widely used. Unity CEO David Helgason tried on what was the very first version of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset whose maker was destined to be bought out by Facebook for more than $2 billion before ever having a product hit the market.
The Rift's biggest challenge isn't getting the technology rig...