Facebook helping to turn Seattle area into hub for virtual, augmented reality

A visitor tries on a virtual-reality headset at Facebook's Seattle offices in 2017. The company is investing heavily in bringing virtual and augmented reality into its social network. (Erika Schultz/Seattle Times/TNS)

SEATTLE: When Facebook set up shop in Seattle in 2010, CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't have a particular type of work planned for the outpost. 

What exactly the social-media giant would do in the Northwest would depend on the kind of engineers the company could recruit.