On the morning of May 22, Facebook recently set up a team of virtual reality experts in London. This team will be the first base of Facebook's Oculus in Europe.
Previously, Zuckerberg told the outside media that the Oculus Rift was very heavy and it took five to ten years to make virtual reality truly mobile. Virtual reality phones may become mainstream in the next 10 years.
Facebook sets up London VR team to launch international expansion
Facebook acquired Oculus for $2 billion in 2014. Information from the LinkedIn website shows that over the past six months, Oculus is gradually expanding its UK engineering development and developer relations team.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees virtual reality as an important technological breakthrough for the next generation. Last year, Facebook acquired Surreal Vision, a British virtual reality startup. However, after the acquisition, the company team moved to the Oculus office in Redmond, Washington.
The head of the Oculus UK team is Mike LeBeau, a former senior engineer at Google. He is a developer of Google Voice Search software and went to London to join Oculus in January this year.
Loeb said on Facebook in January: "We will develop something really cool." This statement shows that the British team will become a core part of the company's technology development.
LinkedIn lists 12 Oculus employees in the UK, 8 of whom have joined the company in the past 6 months. This means that Facebook is currently strengthening the Oculus UK team. The recent recruitment information shows that the Oculus team will also expand.
London has become an important research and development base for Facebook in addition to the United States. Currently, Oculus has established offices in six cities in the United States, as well as in Hong Kong and Seoul.
Facebook, Google and Sony are still actively promoting virtual reality to become mainstream. There are rumors that Apple is also paying attention to this technology.
Zuckerberg said that in the virtual reality world, people on the other side of the world look like they are in the same room. However, he believes that virtual reality still takes a long time to become mainstream. Virtual reality will initially be applied to the gaming industry, but proponents believe that virtual reality will transform many other industries, including education, entertainment and retail.
Zuckerberg said earlier this year: "Virtual reality will be the most social platform. On Facebook, we have set up a new team to develop the next generation of social applications and virtual reality."
Last month, Oculus released its first product, Rift, and competing products from HTC and Sony will be released this year. Deloitte expects that although these virtual reality devices require powerful and expensive computer support, the sales of virtual reality devices will reach 1 million units in 2016.
A spokesperson for Oculus confirmed that the company has a small team in London and said: "With regard to the international plan, we will share more news soon."
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