Oculus VR, best known for his vr-glasses, the Carbon Design Group was acquired. Carbon is including all his employees in the hands of Oculus. Designers of Carbon provided, inter alia, the design of products such as the Xbox 360 controller, and the first version of Kinect.
Oculus made the acquisition Tuesday night Dutch time known on his blog. According to Oculus, the company has the past year been working with the Carbon work on multiple unannounced projects. It is expected that the deal at the end of this summer are completed.
Peter Bristol, creative director at Carbon Design, let me know very excited about the acquisition: “Virtual reality for consumers is still in the development phase and we can at the moment going to define how vr should look like, how it must feel and what it should be able to. It is a completely open product category,” said Bristol.
What Carbon exactly is going to do for Oculus, is not clear. However, the company from the US is an ‘important part’ in the development of upcoming products. May the knowledge in the field of design around cameras, since the previous prototype of the Rift-glasses without controller can be used. Oculus itself was in march this year acquired by Facebook. The social networking site explained to 1.45 billion euros for the vr company.
Update 15.31: made Clear that the Carbon Design Group is responsible for the design of the Xbox 360 controller, and the first version of Kinect, not the technology.
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