Facebook is opening an Oculus research office in Pittsburgh

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Facebook is about to open a facility dedicated to

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virtual reality research in Pittsburgh. The company confirmed the news to

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after a local paper noticed that it had leased a 20,000 square foot building in the city's Oakland neighborhood. Why Steeltown, you might ask? Facebook, which

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Oculus in 2014, is attracted by the large pool of research talent coming out of Carnegie Mellon University and other local schools. In fact, It has already posted job listings for computer vision engineers, programmers and post-doctoral researchers. Those fields of expertise are also vital for self-driving cars, which is why

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(and

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Apple) recently set up shop in the city.

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