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

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, 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.

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Bailenson directs Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, where he conducts variety of virtual reality experiments designed primarily to understanding VR's impact on human behavior Read more...

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