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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Almost a fifth of Facebook employees are now working on VR and AR: report [theverge.com]

Facebook has nearly 10,000 employees in its division working on augmented reality and virtual reality devices, according to a report in The Information [theinformation.com] based on internal organizational data. The number means the Reality Labs division accounts for almost a fifth of the people working at Facebook worldwide.

This suggests that Facebook has been significantly accelerating its VR and AR efforts. As UploadVR noted in 2017 [uploadvr.com], the Oculus VR division accounted for over a thousand employees at a time when Facebook's headcount was 18,770 overall, indicating a percentage somewhere north of five percent.

[...] The $299 Quest 2 was preordered five times as much as its predecessor [theverge.com], with developers seeing a boost in sales of their existing titles.

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