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Oculus

Consumer Tech · Pittsburgh, PA

Oculus VR was a virtual reality technology company founded in 2012 and acquired by Facebook (now Meta Platforms) in 2014. It developed the Oculus Rift headset and related VR hardware and software; the business was rebranded as Meta Reality Labs and its products now ship under the Meta Quest brand.

Founded

Region

Pittsburgh

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz

People

About Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh's tech economy grew out of Carnegie Mellon's robotics program, one of the oldest and deepest in the country, with the University of Pittsburgh's own research base sitting right alongside it — two major universities anchoring one relatively compact city. It's also a place that didn't start as a tech hub at all: this was steel country for a century, and that engineering-and-manufacturing inheritance still shows up in what the region builds — robotics, autonomy, and deep tech that comes out of hard industrial know-how, not a recent software boom.

Region Stats

Total firms 299

VC / investors 6

Companies 286

Universities 7

Known For

Robotics

Autonomy

Deep Tech