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Meta acquired yet another company for its VR efforts.

As reported by former Protocol reporter Janko Roettgers in his new Lowpass newsletter, Meta in June entered a share purchase agreement with Gary Sharp Innovations, which describes itself as a Colorado-based “optics and photonics research lab.”

It’s apparently a tiny company — LinkedIn lists just nine employees — but it marks another hardware acquisition by Meta to bolster its metaverse ambitions.

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