At today's Facebook F8 developer conference, Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash discussed why virtual reality will soon be important to everyone.
He also hinted at the arrival of "something shipped by Oculus" this year, following a video teaser of an unnamed sci-fi VR game.
Outlined in Abrash's keynote were some of the shared goals between Oculus and Facebook, namely creating "shared memory" from immersive experiences by uniting the social elements of Facebook with the artificial "presence" generated by virtual reality.
In terms of how to establish that virtual sense of presence, Abrash defined reality in the same terms as Morpheus from The Matrix, whom Abrash quoted during his speech:
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