The Federal Trade Commission has approved Facebook's purchase of Oculus VR for $2 billion.

PC Magazine confirmed with Facebook representative the deal was approved by the federal agency on Wednesday, though Oculus VR declined to comment about the acquisition.

"We're pleased the FTC has cleared our acquisition of Oculus," a Facebook spokeswoman told PCMag.

The Facebook-Oculus deal was announced in March and received mixed reviews.  Many of the Oculus VR Kickstarter backers were outraged by the purchase, with some demanding their money back. 

The backlash came as a surprise Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe and Oculus Vice President of Product Nate Mitchell, who explained to Game Informer why the Facebook deal was best for the future of the company.

"[Zuckerburg and I] put our heads together and it made too much sense," Iribe told Game Informer.  "If you actually understand [Facebook's] vision of letting us be who we're going to be, just like they wanted to let Instagram be who they are. They want to set a precedent of leaving companies alone, but integrating and being able to allow that company to leverage the momentum and strength and size of Facebook."

Mitchell told Game Informer he was shocked by the overwhelmingly negative response to the deal.

"We assumed that the reaction would be negative, especially from our core community," Mitchell said. "Beyond our core community, we expected it would be positive. I don't think we expected it to be so negative. As people begin to digest it a bit and think about it, you can see that Twitter and Reddit is swinging back the opposite direction. The onus is on us to educate people, and we want to share everything we're doing."

Despite the Facebook backlash, Oculus VR has sold more than 85,000 combined units of their DK1 and DK1 Rift products.