(1) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
(2) • Facebook gets in a row with games firm Zenimax over who actually owns key parts of technology behind Oculus Rift, with Doom-creator John Carmack at its heart
(3) "Oculus was founded on the contrarian belief that the right people at the right time could finally deliver on the science fiction promise," said Chris Dixon, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm which pumped early investments into both Facebook and Oculus (as well as another company bought by Facebook , the photo-sharing website Instagram).
(4) The answer, for the billionaire entrepreneur, is contained in the purchase of Oculus, the maker of the distinctive $350 Rift headset – which looks like a massive pair of opaque diving goggles.
(5) Think wearable tech: Google Glass, for instance, or Oculus Rift , both of which extend the possibilities even further to virtual or augmented realities and audiences existing within artworks, not simply looking on.
(6) It's easy to see why a backer might prefer to take equity in a company rather than settle for a reward: Lynn estimates that an Oculus Rift backer, who had been awarded equity in the company instead of getting a free headset, would have seen their $300 stake rise to around $20,000.
(7) "We're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences," said Zuckerberg, offering a window into his thinking.
(8) It raised $2.4m on crowdfunding site Kickstarte r to make its Oculus Rift VR headset for gaming, distributing early versions to developers so they could start working with the device.
(10) • Sony's project Morpheus is a direct competitor to the Oculus Rift VR headset for the PlayStation 4
(11) 4 Oculus isn't the only player in gaming VR The week before the Facebook announcement, Sony unveiled its own VR headset for the PlayStation 4, Project Morpheus .
(12) Later that month, Brendan Iribe, the Oculus CEO, claimed that the two companies would one day build an online multiplayer virtual reality game for one billion players.
(13) 'A bigger network than exists in the world today' Iribe admitted that building a 1 billion-user community world was "going to take a bigger network than exists in the world today.” He said that Facebook, with its 1.23 billion monthly active users was certainly a good start, suggesting that the Oculus Rift could be used to represent an interconnected virtual world similar to Facebook’s social network.
(14) • I swapped my world for a virtual one – and I loved what I found • WhatsApp: Facebook acquires messaging service in $19bn deal • Sony’s Oculus Rift VR headset rival expected next week at GDC
(15) Already, the first adult-only software for Oculus has arrived, with companies such as Wicked Paradise preparing fully motion-captured "episodic erotic games".
(16) With the purchase of WhatsApp, Moves and Oculus, Facebook seems well on its way to becoming a GE-style conglomerate, with Zuckerberg happily at its head, steering it to a prosperous future.
(17) To be honest, I'm not even surprised Oculus was sold, I'm more surprised that Facebook ended up being the highest bidder."
(18) Thus far, Oculus Rift's open, hackable nature has made it easy for porn companies to experiment.
(19) The news that Facebook has splurged $2bn (£1.2bn) on buying Oculus Rift , the world's first really viable virtual reality headset, has set off waves of plaintive snark in the world of videogames.
(20) All under one magnificent roof.” Oculus was Westfield’s $1.4bn bet that New York, a city known for its love of the street, could also have a successful mall.
Os
Definition:
(n.) A bone.
(n.) A mouth; an opening; an entrance.
(n.) One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
(2) All three organotins inhibited cardiac Na+,K(+)-ATPase, [3H]ouabain binding, K(+)-activated p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (K(+)-PNPPase) and oligomycin-sensitive (OS) and oligomycin-insensitive (OI) Mg(2+)-ATPase in a concentration-dependent manner.
(3) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(4) Monosodium glutamate (MSG) taken per os has been found to stimulate gastric secretion provoked by pentagastrin.
(5) The time and investment required to migrate the entire services to a new and unproven OS would make the task almost impossible.
(6) A 5-year-old boy had accessory calcaneus (os trochleare) with pain, shoe pressure, and a varus position of the foot not reported previously.
(7) However, the forward transmission of Nd-YAG energy through the sapphires varied (SMTR, 85%; MTR, 83%; MTRL, 75%; OS, 54%; LT, 69%).
(8) In our opinion in case of typical anamnesis the cerclage-operation is to be performed earlier than in the practice up till now, before opening the cervical os, and the infection of the amnion.
(9) The launch of a new version of Mac OS X is normally an exciting time for members of the development community.
(10) OSC activity was restored in the mutants as determined by [14C]acetate incorporation in vivo as well as incorporation in vitro in cell-free extracts using either [14C]isopentenyl pyrophosphate or [3H]OS as substrate.
(11) Most such infections appear to originate in the fetal membranes near the cervical os.
(12) "I'm interested to see what RIM's new OS has in store, and hope I'll be able to sample some of its features on the 9900.
(13) In RA patients, OS autoantibodies correlated with NOS autoantibodies (P less than 0.04) and with HLA-DR3 antigen (P less than 0.01).
(14) This procedure maintained the catheter within the uterine cavity and facilitated the insertion of a MacDonald cerclage in the region of the internal cervical os.
(15) A comparison of treatment routes indicated the relative efficacies as intraperitoneal greater than per os greater than intramuscular greater than or equal to subcutaneous.
(16) The localization of the organisms in animals infected per os proved similar to that found with the venous route of inoculation, however, showing weaker intensity.
(17) In order to study the hypothesized impairment of the serotoninergic system in human obesity, an insulin tolerance test (ITT) was carried out on 12 obese normoprolactinemic women and on 6 normal-weight women before (A) and after (B) the administration of a serotoninergic drug, fenfluramine (60 mg twice a day per os for 7 days).
(18) OS Map: Explorer 171 Chiltern Hills West and Explorer 172 Chiltern Hills East Arthur's Seat Edinburgh Salisbury Crags and Edinburgh's skyline from Arthur's Seat.
(19) The most frequently registered defects were: os tympanicum (smaller): 23%, os tympanicum (missing): 23%; missing tail: 7%; protruding tongue (15%); none of these defects were seen in the control fetuses.
(20) Twelve of the 16 patients, all with abnormal flow-volume loops, had high R(os)-volume slopes, demonstrating excessive expiratory narrowing even during tidal breathing.