When Facebook controversially acquired the virtual reality system Oculus Rift, it opened the door to speculation of how Facebook would leverage their newly gained VR assets. Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted that millions would have access to Oculus VR by the end of the year.

Now, Digital Trends reports that Facebook has announced that they will be pursing a new gaming platform:

[Facebook’s] new venture will get underway with an extension of the relationship between Facebook and Unity Technologies, the company responsible for the Unity cross-platform game engine.

Facebook wants to make it easier for Unity developers to publish their games to the social media service. To that end, the the engine will soon be adding an option to export directly to Facebook, streamlining the process significantly to help content creators reach the millions of users that visit the site on a daily basis.

A select group of developers will be given access to a closed alpha build of this functionality Thursday, with more being added to the program on an ongoing basis, according to a report from Engadget. Anyone looking to be included in this test period can register using this form.

Lots of big-name titles use Unity, so making it easy to publish games to Facebook  using the engine certainly makes sense in terms of starting up a gaming platform. Theoretically, games as diverse as Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Firewatch, Superhot, and Monument Valley could all be ported with a minimal amount of effort from their developers.

While specific gaming attributes are just speculation at this point, we will certainly look forward to Facebook’s success or failure to effectively enter the gaming world. With the hugely popular PokémonGo showing the world the power and possibilities of the gaming consumer, it is almost impossible to think that Facebook won’t soon be revealing their own gaming system with a VR component.