Facebook: We Are Not Redesigning, Rebranding Oculus Hardware

Someone described as a person involved in Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of immersive virtual reality technology company Oculus VR told Nick Wingfield and Vindu Goel of The New York Times that the social network plans to redesign Oculus’ hardware and rebrand it with a Facebook interface and logo, but Facebook is officially denying the report.

OculusRift650Someone described as a person involved in Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of immersive virtual reality technology company Oculus VR told Nick Wingfield and Vindu Goel of The New York Times that the social network plans to redesign Oculus’ hardware and rebrand it with a Facebook interface and logo, but Facebook is officially denying the report.

A Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch the report is “not true” and “not in the spirit of our relationship” with the virtual reality company.

And in announcing the acquisition Tuesday, Facebook said:

Oculus will maintain its headquarters in Irvine, Calif.,

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