Gearing up for its official launch early next year, Facebook’s Oculus Rift unit just bought British start-up Surreal Vision for an undisclosed sum. “The British firm has been working to
refine software that can accurately and quickly build 3D maps of physical environments,” The Register reports. “The software matches the data points it can spot with a database of known
objects and adapts its model based on what it has seen before, and extrapolates shapes and properties from that.”
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