Fb is shedding its remaining Oculus co-founder

Fb spent billions on Oculus in 2014, and within the years because the group has been absorbed deeper into Fb whilst the startup’s co-founders have stepped again in prominence. Lately, the overall Oculus co-founder closing at Fb, Nate Mitchell, introduced he was once leaving the comp…
Facebook spent billions on Oculus in 2014, and in the years since the organization has been absorbed deeper into Facebook while the startup’s co-founders have stepped back in prominence. Today, the final Oculus co-founder remaining at Facebook, Nate Mitchell, announced he was leaving the comp…

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Author: Lucas Matney

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  2. "Facebook spent a large amount of time at its Oculus Connect 6 keynote detailing the new links between its VR headset and the company’s core Facebook app". (September 25, 2019)
  3. "The quarantine lockdown is driving a record number of users to Facebooks products. On a conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed a number of new metrics highlighting a significant bump in Facebook usage during the broader quarantine lockdown". (April 29, 2020)
  4. "Facebook is selling Oculus Medium a 3D virtual reality sculpting tool for creatives to Adobe. The team was an expensive effort for Oculus and its sale signifies a broader rethinking within Facebook in what virtual reality projects they tackle in-house". (December 7, 2019)
  5. "An employee of Facebook died by apparent suicide Thursday morning, Menlo Park police reported and the company confirmed. “We were saddened to learn that one of our employees passed away at our Menlo Park headquarters earlier today,” a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch in an email". (September 20, 2019)
  6. "Most of the people I spoke with at Facebook’s Oculus Connect see the proliferation of virtual reality as a foregone conclusion, one that’s just a matter of timing at this point". (September 27, 2019)
  7. "Facebook is officially killing off the Rift. The company showed off its latest headset at its newly renamed Facebook Connect online event today, but they also revealed that they would be ending sales of the PC-based Oculus Rift S early next year". (September 16, 2020)
  8. "Today, Facebook quietly released a new app for couples. Called Tuned, the new release is a multimedia messaging app designed to help significant others communicate. The app is available for download in the U.S. and Canada, app analytics firm Sensor Tower tells us". (April 7, 2020)
  9. "A number of popular apps including Spotify, GroupMe, Pinterest and TikTok were fielding user iOS crash reports Wednesday evening, the result of an apparent issues with Facebooks SDK according to a lengthy GitHub thread on the topic". (May 7, 2020)
  10. "Australian Facebook users will be forced to go elsewhere to read news after the company announced Wednesday that they will be restricting users in the country from sharing or viewing news links on the platform". (February 17, 2021)
  11. "As consumer tech companies come under fire for how they handle voice data from consumers, Facebook is announcing changes to how users can manage recordings and transcriptions that are stored on Facebook’s services". (September 18, 2019)
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