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The entire team of BigBox VR is expected to join Oculus Studios, a Facebook subsidiary. The social media giant was drawn to buy BigBox due to the popularity of the game

Read more about Facebook acquires VR game developer BigBox VR for undisclosed sum on Business Standard. Facebook gas acquired BigBox VR, makers of the popular battle royale virtual reality game titled Population: One for an undisclosed sum

It's the fifth VR studio Facebook has bought.

Facebook has bought several virtual reality game studios over the past couple of years, and they added one more to their portfolio Friday with the acquisition of Seattle-based BigBox VR. The studio’s major title, “Population: One,” was one of the big post-launch releases for Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset and is a pretty direct Fortnite […]

04 June 2021, 03:06 pm Oculus Studios is currently making some long-term innovations that could help its latest Oculus Quest 2 VR headset. These new plans include the release of various titles to the popular wearable device.  (Photo : Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) A man tries out a Virtual Reality game inside a Fulldome.pro 360-degree projection dome on opening day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. T...

Capcom’s “Resident Evil 4” and “Devil May Cry” game assets were stolen from an artist's work — a photographer who sued the company alleges.

Geeky Gadgets 1:34 pm Facebook has this week announced its fourth virtual reality development studio acquisition, confirming the acquisition of Downpour Interactive, the creative team behind the virtual reality shooter Onward. Since launching on the Facebook Oculus Quest platform, Onward has become one of the platforms most popular virtual reality titles. Dante Buckley, Founder and CEO of Downpour Interactive, has stood out over the last several years as a source of inspiration within the VR in...

Oculus has a new first-party developer under its wing, as the company has just acquired Downpour Interactive – the studio responsible for popular VR shooter, Onward. The new acquisition was announced in a blog post, featuring statements from Downpour Interactive. When asked why the studio decided to sell, the company stated: “We’ve seen great success with Onward on the Oculus platform for several years—first on Rift and more recently on Quest. Becoming part of the Oculus Studios family ...

Share It’s quite commonplace for companies like Microsoft and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) to acquire smaller studios that’ve got popular IPs and teams to support them. Over the last 18 months, Facebook has been doing the same in the virtual reality (VR) space, the latest being Downpour Interactive, the indie team behind popular military shooter Onward. Facebook’s Mike Verdu, VP of VR/AR Content made the announcement this weekend, explaining: “Downpour Interactive leads the VR ...

Oscar calls for Electronic Arts Stuart Derdeyn © Provided by Vancouver Sun Colette Marin-Catherine, 90 year-old French resistance fighter and subject of the OSCAR-winning short documentary film Colette. Vancouver-based video game powerhouse Electronic Arts has become the first video games studio to win an Oscar. Colette, a film directed by Anthony Giacchino and co-produced by Respawn Entertainment, a studio of Electronic Arts and Oculus Studios, won the Best Documentary Sh...