XR and Metaverse, the players, the issues and the morals...

Facebook/Oculus, from virtual reality to the metaverse...

Publié le 31 juil. 2021 Mis à jour le 31 juil. 2021 Technologie

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Facebook/Oculus, from virtual reality to the metaverse...

Charles Henri Marraud Des Grottes

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So, as I was saying, the hit of the summer is the metaverse from Facebook. Great marketing campaign, as usual.

Let's try a random recap: March 2014: Facebook buys Oculus from Palmer Luckey for a billion and some shares that will bring the total deal to two billion. Htc Vive jumps in 2015, amusing Mark Zuckerberg, who figures he'll get to test the market by watching this HTC release before his Oculus Rift. HTC Vive says it will launch its headset in November 2015. Oculus then announces it's Oculus Rift for February 2016. But HTC understands that it should not launch first. They then announce to release only in April 2016, giving a scare to Mark Zuckerberg who will no longer have his free market research, and who has already announced the release of the Oculus Rift for February 2016...