The design firm behind the Xbox 360 controller and the original Kinect now belongs to Oculus VR. The team will be an important part for creating new controls and likely create better virtual reality ...

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Oculus is continuing its quest to assemble a PC gaming super team, announcing Monday that the company would acquire Carbon Design Group. Carbon is a respected design firm best known for creating the ...

Carbon Design’s past projects include the Xbox 360 controller and Kinect. Oculus VR, the company that makes the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, announced today that it has reached an agreement to ...

Oculus VR, Facebook's virtual reality gaming headset company, has announced that it has acquired Carbon Design. Based in Seattle, Washington, Carbon Design is known for its exquisite consumer ...

When Oculus revealed its newest PC headset, Rift S, at GDC last month, it was a surprise to see the ‘Lenovo’ logo on the side. Oculus explained that Facebook tapped the company to help in both the ...

As Oculus continues its long grind from early prototype to refined developer kit to eventual consumer product, the company has spent a small portion of its Facebook billions to acquire Seattle's ...

Some enterprising diggers over at reddit have found a placeholder site posted by Oculus, showing off rendered images of the Oculus Rift that could hint at the headset's final consumer design, and ...

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Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, has upped the ante in its quest to define future hardware by acquiring Carbon Design, the team that designed the Xbox 360 ...

Oculus VR, the team behind the Rift virtual reality headset, has acquired the Carbon Design Group, best known for its work on the Xbox 360 controller. Carbon Design also helped design the Xbox 360 ...

Since the Facebook acquisition, Oculus has already snatched up just about all of the biggest names in virtual reality. Their next move? Grabbing amazing hardware designers. Oculus has just announced ...