While Oculus has created immersive virtual 3D worlds inside the Rift headset, there isn’t much it can do with the actual world around the headset. However, that might change soon, as the Facebook-owned company announced the acquisition of computer vision startup Surreal Vision on Tuesday.
The deal could be the beginnings of Oculus' bid to extend its virtual reality (VR) promise to actual reality, including technology that can map out users' physical environment and replicate it digitally, to augmented reality (AR), which layers information over their view of the real world. Here's what Surreal Vision may bring to Oculus' table.
