Valve’s virtual-reality mastermind joins Facebook’s Oculus VR

Facebook acquires Oculus. Oculus acquires Michael Abrash. It’s the circle of virtual life.

Just days after Facebook purchased Oculus VR for its groundbreaking Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, the startup picked up one of the biggest brains in the field: Valve Software‘s virtual-reality guru Michael Abrash. The long-time developer, whoch has previously worked at Microsoft and Quake developer id, is now the chief scientist at Oculus VR. He has spent the last several years developing VR technologies at Valve.