Facebook, the largest social media website in the world announced today that they have purchased the Oculus Rift VR for $2 Billion. This is one of the largest buyouts that has ever been seen for a relatively new company. Oculus VR is a company that created a new headset that allowed for the beginning stages of Virtual Reality. Facebook has purchased this headset not for video games but instead as a teaching tool that will be able to be used in homes as well as schools.
This could be one of the best things that Facebook has ever done. Just imagine that you could teach the young or the old new skill sets through a headset. It’d be a new way of thinking that would allow for information to be processed faster in the human mind while making it more enjoyable to learn those new skill sets.
Facebook released a statement regarding their purchasing of Oculus VR, Stating: “We have purchased Oculus VR in hopes that we will be able to advance this new technology as a teaching tool for any students, may they be young or old. Instead of having to go into your booklet, take down all the notes and process all of that information slowly. You will now to taught the subject, be able to make the software save certain videos from the subjects curriculum and then replay those videos back to you. You could memorize the entire subject within a matter of weeks, this in return will allow for us to gain intelligence at a faster rate.”