The company that designed the original Kinect sensor and the Xbox 360 controller - Carbon Design - has been acquired by VR firm Oculus. The finer details of the deal remain undisclosed, but the move will make the hardware firm a "key component of the product engineering group" over at Oculus before the end of the summer.
"A few seconds with the latest Oculus prototypes and you know that virtual reality is for real this time," Carbon Design's creative director, Peter Bristol, said in a statement.
"From a design and engineering perspective, building the products that finally deliver consumer virtual reality is one of the most interesting and challenging problem sets ever. This is an entirely open product category. With consumer VR at its inception, the physical architectures are still unknown - We're on the cutting edge of defining how virtual reality looks, feels, and functions."
Oculus are now throwing their new-found financial muscle around after they themselves were bought by Facebook in a $2 billion deal. The company's VR headset is expected to hit retail at some point in the nearish future, although a release date has yet to be confirmed.