# Oculus VR: robotics company

Canonical ID: `08fab15e-aa53-43b6-a823-2f11d1024442`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Brendan Iribe (former)
- **CTO:** John Carmack (former)
- **Total funding raised:** $91 million ($2.4M crowdfunding + $88.6M venture)
- **Hero image candidate:** https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Oculus_Rift_-_Developer_Version_-_Front.jpg/500px-Oculus_Rift_-_Developer_Version_-_Front.jpg (source: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY)

- **Slug:** oculus-vr
- **Status:** acquired (by Meta/Facebook, 2014)
- **Founded:** 2012
- **HQ:** Menlo Park, California, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 2078400000

## Models

- [Oculus Rift](/models/oculus-rift.md) (wearable) (id: `067d34a2-0d4a-46fb-a359-cdb8513a7f72`)

## Current leadership (5)

- [Palmer Luckey](/people/palmer-luckey.md) Founder (_reported, not verified_)
- [Brendan Iribe](/people/brendan-iribe.md) CEO & Co-founder (_reported, not verified_)
- [John Carmack](/people/john-carmack.md) CTO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Michael Antonov](/people/michael-antonov.md) Co-founder (_reported, not verified_)
- [Nate Mitchell](/people/nate-mitchell.md) Co-founder & VP Product (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (4)

- [Palmer Luckey](/people/palmer-luckey.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_
- [Brendan Iribe](/people/brendan-iribe.md) (cofounder)
- [Michael Antonov](/people/michael-antonov.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_
- [Nate Mitchell](/people/nate-mitchell.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_

## Acquisitions (1)

- [acquired by Meta](/acquisitions/meta-acquires-oculus-2014.md) _full acquisition_

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Incidents affecting Oculus VR (1)

- [Oculus Quest 2 foam insert recalled after 5,716 reports of skin irritation](/incidents/recall-2021-07-27-oculus-vr.md), 2021-07-27 · Recall

_Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents excluded from this view but reachable at their canonical URLs._

## Common questions

### What is Oculus VR?

Oculus VR was a virtual reality hardware company founded by [Palmer Luckey](/companies/palmer-luckey) in 2012, best known for the [Oculus Rift](/models/oculus-rift) headset that revived the consumer VR industry. The company raised $91 million in venture funding including a $2.4M Kickstarter campaign and a $75M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, before being acquired by [Meta Platforms](https://meta.com) for approximately $2 billion in 2014. Oculus products including the Rift, Quest, and Quest 2 now fall under Meta's Reality Labs division, which reported $2.2 billion in revenue and a $19.1 billion operating loss in 2025.

### What does Oculus VR make?

Oculus VR has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Oculus Rift (Oculus VR builds physical robots).

### Is Oculus VR publicly traded?

Oculus VR is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of Meta/Facebook on the DEPLOY registry.

### Who competes with Oculus VR?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Oculus VR building in the same form factors include Xiaomi, Baidu, Brilliant Labs, Open Bionics.

### Where is Oculus VR headquartered?

Oculus VR is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, USA.

### How much funding has Oculus VR raised?

Oculus VR has raised approximately $2.1B in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Oculus VR operate robots?

Oculus VR is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Oculus VR a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Oculus VR ranks in roughly the top 35% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Oculus VR founded?

Oculus VR was founded in 2012.

### Are there any incidents involving Oculus VR?

1 active incident involving Oculus VR is on the DEPLOY registry. Each is a sourced, append-only record; retracted incidents are suppressed from this view.


## Sources (1)

1. https://www.meta.com/

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