June 17, 2021 01:12 am
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/16/22537795/is-facebook-cornering-the-vr-market
Is Facebook cornering the VR market?
Imagine that, over the past year, Facebook had managed to acquire the battle royale game Fortnite, the kid-focused game creation engine Roblox, and the best-selling game of 2020, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
For many reasons, such a spree of acquisitions would never happen. One of the biggest is that antitrust scrutiny has made it increasingly difficult for Facebook to acquire anything that resembles a social network. It was more than a year ago that the company bought the moribund GIF search engine Giphy, which had few prospects for success as a standalone company; the United Kingdom’s competition watchdog has so far blocked the deal from closing, warning the acquisition would somehow harm Facebook’s competitors.
And yet if you...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/16/22537795/is-facebook-cornering-the-vr-market
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