(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.
Window
Definition:
(n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
(n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
(n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
(v. t.) To furnish with windows.
(v. t.) To place at or in a window.
Example Sentences:
(1) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
(2) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(3) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
(4) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(5) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(6) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(7) The narrow latency window contained significantly more responses than could be explained by the spontaneous activity rate, but this was not true for the added time permitted by the broad window.
(8) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(9) A wide window setting permits both pleura and lung parenchyma to be examined simultaneously.
(10) This resulted in greater uniformity of abrasion over the enamel surface within the biopsy window area and better operator handling characteristics.
(11) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
(12) To assess the window of implantation, same age embryos were transferred onto endometrium of different maturational stages.
(13) Simultaneously, reactivity of pial arteriole was observed and its diameter was measured through the cranial window using intravital microscope and width analyzer.
(14) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
(15) First, the induction and synthesis of specific proteins after brain cell injury provide a window through which insight on the regulation of gene expression in pathological tissue can be obtained.
(16) Peculiarities of the central area EEG have been exhibited in all the age groups, and it has been assumed that the central parts of the cortex of a suckling infant are a kind of "window" into the subcortical parts.
(17) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(18) Many of the windows in the road shattered.” This was France’s – and western Europe’s – first ever female suicide bombing.
(19) These include examination of blood films, which may prove helpful in the diagnosis of Chediak-Higashi syndrome and specific granule deficiency; the Rebuck skin window test, which estimates chemotactic defects; the NBT test, which screens for chronic granulomatous disease patients; and peroxidase staining of the blood film in order to estimate the content of myeloperoxidase, when myeloperoxidase deficiency is suspected.
(20) She told Time magazine that “doors and windows were flying” after the blast.