According to a report, Facebook has nearly 10,000 employees in its division working on augmented reality and virtual reality devices The information based on internal organizational data. The number means that the Reality Labs division accounts for almost a fifth of the people worldwide on Facebook.
This suggests that Facebook has significantly accelerated its VR and AR efforts. As UploadVR noted in 2017, the Oculus VR division was responsible for more than a thousand employees at a time when the number of Facebook staff was 18,770, indicating a percentage somewhere north of five percent.
Since then, Facebook has shifted its VR focus from Oculus Rift-style paired headsets by releasing the Oculus Quest and Quest 2, which are standalone wireless devices that do not require a computer. The Quest 2 $ 299 has been ordered five times as much as its predecessor, and developers are seeing a boost in sales of their existing titles.
“Most of what Facebook does today is … we build on top of other people’s platforms,” said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO The information in an interview this week about Facebook’s VR and AR ambitions. ‘I think it really makes sense to invest deeply to help shape what I think will be the next important computing platform, this combination of augmented and virtual reality, to make sure it evolves in a way that is fundamentally about people. to be present and get together. ”