Mark Zuckerberg Bought Oculus VR After Asking for Project Morpheus Tech Demo

It has been revealed that the social media tycoon actually tried out Sony's Project Morpheus a week before he acquired the Oculus VR.

According to GameSpot, Mark Zuckerberg actually asked for a Project Morpheus tech demo. The gaming outlet says that the incident was shared by PlayStation marketing executive Guy Longworth at a session at Games Marketing Summit 2014.

Longworth even joked, "I wish he bought ours.  All the folks at Oculus have got big smiles on today." But the PlayStation exec maintains that Project Morpheus will still be going strong.

"If you think about VR, not just in terms of gaming, I think wearable technology is a huge trend that's going to continue. I think that being able to have experiences that are truly deep and immersive...that it somehow makes you feel you are there...is something that people want. If you could really deliver that in the future, that would be huge," GameSpot quotes Longworth.

A Reuters report confirmed that Zuckerberg has successfully acquired Oculus VR Inc. almost a month after the buy-out announcement. It can be recalled that Facebook announced plans of buying the two-year-old maker of virtual reality goggles for $2 billion in March 25.

"Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that the proposed transaction reflected his company's desire to bet on 'the platforms of tomorrow,'" reports Reuters.

Kotaku remarks that whatever plans Sony and Facebook have with their respective virtual reality headsets, the key is how each company makes use of the said technology.

"I suspect Sony, at this stage see it as a PlayStation peripheral, whereas for Facebook, the Rift is a device that will change the world," says Kotaku.

GameSpot notes that Sony and Facebook are not the only companies working on virtual reality technology. "Microsoft is reportedly working on its own VR/AR technology, and even paid as much as $150 million to acquire assets related to wearable technology earlier this year," says the report.