Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier Talks Facebook's Oculus Deal

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Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier Talks Facebook's Oculus Deal
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When Facebook acquired Oculus Rift (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) on Tuesday, the deal validated a tech**logy category that has long been viewed as mostly experimental: virtual reality

That's why the first question on the minds of those who have followed the VR space for years was: What does Jaron Lanier, one of the early pioneers and most passionate advocates of VR, think of this blockbuster deal?

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"Well, in the abstract, I say congrats to the Oculus team, but beyond that what matters is what they actually do," Lanier said in an email to Mashable. "If they don't make a success of this support, that would be a drag Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/27/virtual-reality-pioneer-jaron-lanier-reacts-to-facebooks-oculus-acquisition/?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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