{"id":12898,"date":"2014-03-26T22:47:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12898"},"modified":"2014-03-26T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:47:55","slug":"whats-oculus-rift-and-other-questions-about-facebooks-new-foray-into-virtual-reality-megan-garber-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12898","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What&#8217;s Oculus Rift?&#8217; And Other Questions About Facebook&#8217;s New Foray Into Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">But if Oculus is so great, then why do people seem so surprised that Facebook has acquired it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Partly it\u2019s that Oculus, despite its popularity among gamers and its buy-in from the tech community, is still a small start-up. (It got its start on Kickstarter, where, in a 2012 campaign that sought $250,000 in funding, it raised more than $2 million. It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/03\/25\/oculus-rift-facebook-_n_5031342.html\">remains one of Kickstarter&#8217;s most successful campaigns<\/a>.) And, furthermore, Oculus has been focused on what many have seen as a niche technology for a niche demographic\u2014hard-core gamers&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/03\/whats-oculus-rift-and-other-questions-about-facebooks-new-foray-into-virtual-reality\/359612\/\">&#8216;What&#8217;s Oculus Rift?&#8217; And Other Questions About Facebook&#8217;s New Foray Into Virtual Reality &#8211; Megan Garber &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But if Oculus is so great, then why do people seem so surprised that Facebook has acquired it? Partly it\u2019s that Oculus, despite its popularity among gamers and its buy-in from the tech community, is still a small start-up. (It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[580,187,661,1287],"class_list":["post-12898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-facebook","tag-gaming","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12900,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions\/12900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}