Zuckerberg Wishes Facebook Could Have Built VR Without Oculus

Build or buy? It's the age-old business question, but when the buy added up to billions of dollars, it was, perhaps, the question for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

The social network founder and CEO revealed this week that Facebook would probably have preferred to build its own virtual reality solution than spend $2 billion in 2014 on virtual reality startup Oculus VR.

In an interview this week with Y Combinator President Sam Altman, Zuckerberg talked about how Facebook makes some of its very big or "crazy" moves. Zuckerberg immediately pointed to the Oculus acquisition and cast it in a light we haven't seen before. Read more...