The VR Experience That May Have Convinced Mark Zuckerberg to Buy Oculus

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The VR Experience That May Have Convinced Mark Zuckerberg to Buy Oculus
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What do you do if you're thinking about spending $2 billion on a hot virtual reality company? Well, if you're Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, you go experience cutting-edge virtual reality for yourself.

Weeks before Facebook an**unced that it had acquired virtual reality gaming headset manufacturer Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/facebook-acquires-oculus-vr-for-2-billion/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), Zuckerberg made a private visit to Stanford University. He was there to see one of the country's leading virtual reality experts, Associate Professor Jeremy Bailenson.

See also: Facebook Acquires Oculus VR for $2 Billion (http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/facebook-acquires-oculus-vr-for-2-billion/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Bailenson directs Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab (http://vhil.stanford.edu/), where he conducts variety of virtual reality experiments designed primarily to understanding VR's impact on human behavior Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/26/zuckerberg-tried-stanford-vr-oculus-rift/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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