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04-15-2014, 06:12 PM
What Is Virtual Reality and How Does It Work?
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Facebook recently acquired Oculus VR (http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/facebook-acquires-oculus-vr-for-2-billion/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), the company behind the next generation virtual reality headset Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), for a hefty $2 billion. Before the purchase, Oculus raised more than $91 million in venture funding after an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign put them on the radar of techies and gamers alike. With all of this attention and all of this money **w being invested, it looks like virtual reality is making a huge comeback.
But what is virtual reality, and how does it work? Well, we're here to explain.
See also: What Facebook Might Look Like Using Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/oculus-rift-facebook-concept-video/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Facebook recently acquired Oculus VR (http://mashable.com/2014/03/25/facebook-acquires-oculus-vr-for-2-billion/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), the company behind the next generation virtual reality headset Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), for a hefty $2 billion. Before the purchase, Oculus raised more than $91 million in venture funding after an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign put them on the radar of techies and gamers alike. With all of this attention and all of this money **w being invested, it looks like virtual reality is making a huge comeback.
But what is virtual reality, and how does it work? Well, we're here to explain.
See also: What Facebook Might Look Like Using Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/oculus-rift-facebook-concept-video/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The newest video in our Mashable Explains ****** covers everything you need to k**w about the basics of VR. After you watch the video above, subscribe to Mashable on YouTube for more. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/15/what-is-virtual-reality/?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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