Oculus Buys Software Startup RakNet Ahead of Facebook Deal Close
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Oculus VR Inc., the virtual-reality company that Facebook Inc. agreed to buy for about $2 billion earlier this year, acquired software startup RakNet to make it easier to add features like chatting to video games.
RakNet, owned by Jenkins Software LLC and based in Costa Mesa, California, makes a game-networking engine that is now open source, or available to anyone who wants to use it, Oculus said today on its blog. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.