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Getting Your Head Into The Facebook-Oculus Virtual Reality Deal

By Avie Schneider
Published March 26, 2014 at 12:34 PM CDT
An attendee wears an Oculus Rift HD virtual reality headset at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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An attendee wears an Oculus Rift HD virtual reality headset at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Author Howard Rheingold has been thinking about virtual reality tech for decades. He spoke to us on Twitter about Facebook's $2 billion purchase of Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift headset.

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