Facebook has spent $88 million on Oculus-related permits so far this year in an effort to expand\u00a0its satellite VR headquarters\u00a0in and around the Seattle area.<\/p>\n
Expanding operations further into the Pacific Northwest doesn’t come as a big surprise, as Facebook\u00a0has spent $106 million on construction and development permits for Oculus offices in Redmond during the past three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As reported by TechCrunch<\/a>, Facebook has purchased\u00a0permits for at least\u00a0eight new offices in the area, with data from BuildZoom<\/a> (a real estate analysis resource) confirming five properties in particular\u00a0spanning more than 90,000 square feet of lab and office space.<\/p>\n It seems as though Facebook intends to use the space for more research and development, as the company\u00a0was looking for 200,000 square feet worth of R&D space in Redmond\u00a0last fall to grow\u00a0its existing Oculus research efforts there as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Facebook has spent $88 million on Oculus-related permits so far this year in an effort to expand\u00a0its satellite VR headquarters\u00a0in and around the Seattle area. Expanding operations further into the Pacific Northwest doesn’t come as a big surprise, as Facebook\u00a0has spent $106 million on construction and development permits for Oculus offices in Redmond during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}