OculusVR will acquire the Carbon Design, the company behind the Xbox 360 controller, OculusVR announced this week.
“The team will officially become a key component of the product engineering group at Oculus, operating from the Carbon studio in the Seattle area,” the company said.
“The Carbon team brings their expertise around building great feeling, great looking consumer products like the Xbox 360 controller,” said the announcement. “We’ve been working with Carbon for nearly a year on multiple unannounced projects.”
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