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Dublin-based Keywords Studios makes second acquisition this week
Video gaming firm snaps up Localizadora Latam just days after buying Sperasoft
Irish game developer Keywords Studios buys US firm in $27m deal
Keywords has bought Sperasoft, which employs 400 software engineers and artists
Facebook to sell portable headset for virtual reality
The Oculus Go is billed as simpler than the Oculus Rift, which went on sale last year
Facebook’s Oculus cuts price of virtual reality headset
Rift’s new price of $399 matches Sony’s VR headset PlayStation VR
Oculus shutters VR movie studio
Parent company Facebook to close Story Studio, which launched two years ago
Reality bites as Oculus Rift inventor moves on from Facebook
Cantillon: Palmer Luckey leaves social media giant two years after it bought his business
Not quite so Luckey? Oculus founder departs Facebook
Social media giant bought Palmer Luckey’s firm in 2014 for $2bn in virtual reality push
Facebook-owned Oculus hit by $500m judgment over ‘stolen code’
ZeniMax claims it was responsible for key breakthroughs in virtual reality software
Oculus to recruit 9 engineers for new Cork office
Facebook-owned virtual reality company expands new LED research base in Cork
‘Fanciful story’ behind virtual reality firm Facebook bought
It began as a rift between geeks but is now a messy $2bn dispute set to involve Zuckerberg
Oculus acquires Cork-based InfiniLED
Deal will see Irish-developed LED technology applied to virtual-reality devices
Oculus brings virtual reality closer to home
Tech Tools: Rift headset maker drops minimum spec, meaning it is now possible to use a laptop
Tech Tools: Go Pro Omni brings virtual reality to action photography
GoPro Omni Camera allows you to shoot360 degree action footage
Analysis: Rumours of Facebook’s demise greatly exaggerated
Latest results show benefits of bold moves made by company
Google pushes further into world of virtual reality
New smartphone headset is expected to be similar to Samsung’s Gear VR
Getting accustomed to the virtual life at tech-heads’ big consumer show
A few days trying out VR clobber has us convinced: virtual reality is no fluke
Web Summit: Facebook’s getting smarter at recognition
CTO Mike Schroepfer showcases an ever-smarter streamlined network
Will virtual reality become a real thing in 2016?
Oculus Rift, Vive, Samsung’s Gear and Microsoft’s HoloLens – here come the headsets
Oculus unveils consumer Rift headset, new controllers
Company also links up with Microsoft to integrate Oculus with Windows
Virtual reality ready for reboot as Oculus Rift headset comes on market
Oculus Rift will bring VR into your living room next year – thanks to Kickstarter
No ordinary film: The Doghouse gives audiences a seat at the table
A Danish short film lets the viewer inhabit one of five characters around a dinner table by wearing an Oculus Rift headset. And so this thirtysomething Irish female journalist becomes a middle-aged Danish man
Irish researchers working with Facebook’s new 3D acquisition
UCD researcher sees privacy concerns with Oculus but Facebook buyout gives ‘needed’ investment
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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