Not Content With Buying Oculus Facebook Reportedly Wanted To Dominate VR By Purchasing Unity

Very soon a new book is being released by Blake J. Harris called ‘The History of the Future’ looking at the story of Oculus, how it was founded, its subsequent acquisition by Facebook and all the fun drama that’s occurred over the past few years as virtual reality (VR) has grown. It seems however that such was Mark Zuckerberg’s interest in the tech that the book claims he considered purchasing Unity, the software development engine that powers a lot of the content everyone currently enjoys. Facebook purchased Oculus for just over $2 billion USD in 2014. A year later the social media giant then considered another multi-billion dollar deal to snap up Unity reports Tech Crunch. For the book Harris had been working closely with the Facebook PR team, supposedly gaining access to over 25,000 documents whilst being granted interviews with top Facebook executives. In amongst all those documents was an email dated from 2015 in which Zuckerberg mentions his interest in acquiring Unity, in a bid to help it ward off competition from rivals.