Adobe buys Oculus Medium from Facebook

Oculus Medium is a 3D sculpting tool for virtual reality applications

Adobe strengthens its portfolio of creative tools for virtual reality with the acquisition of Oculus Medium which was launched by Facebook's VR subsidiary in 2015. Oculus Medium is a 3D sculpture solution that is used by digital artists and to game developers. Adobe sees it as a complementary tool for its 3D Substance texturing solution and promises to develop new features and enhancements for next year. Oculus Medium will remain free for owners of Oculus VR headphones.

For Facebook, this sale comes just after the acquisition of Beat Saber's Beat Beat publisher, suggesting a reorientation that could bring him closer to what Microsoft or Sony, who have themselves acquired small game publishers to expand their content portfolios. The amount of the sale of Oculus Medium has not been made public