Oculus Rift

[Pseudo Enigma]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/25/5547456/facebook-buying-oculus-for-2-billion

Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.

So apparently Facebook bought Oculus Rift for $2,000,000,000. April Fools isn't until next week.

[MinaciousGrace]

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people still care about facebook?

[Pseudo Enigma]

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I think we should care a lot about what Facebook does if they have $2B to just throw around on crap like Oculus Rift. Fuck I really wanted one too.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/03/25/notch-cancels-minecraft-oculus-rift-deal-facebook-creeps-me-out/

Also Notch cares.

[MinaciousGrace]

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allow me to rephrase my question as a statement

lol, people still care about facebook

[Ziergdsx18]

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<%kudo> I guess it's time to cancel my pre-order

That is all.

[Wafles]

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Oculus Rift is dead, the zuck wants to turn it into a social platform

"Please log in to facebook to play"


I feel bad for all the people that backed this initially, their outage is completely justified.


inb4 Sony decides to capitalize on this and make bring Morpheus to pc as well

[dragon890x]

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Farmville 3 VR - Watch your animals poop, just like in real life!

It's too bad that it takes 6 hours worth of stamina to stimulate their bowels. Good thing energy boosters are on sale.

[Izzy]

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Saw this yesterday and was extremely disappointed. This was going to be the coolest thing of the decade. Totally ruined.

[TC_Halogen]

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The thing that bothers me even more about this: Oculus Rift was a kickstarter program that was backed with over $2 million dollars, if I memory serves me correctly. It almost seems like the money that was donated went to waste because a financial super-power with plenty of money took their concept on.

This is pretty sad; I don't foresee the technology being used nearly as effectively as it could have standing alone.

[Charu]

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John Carmack, wonder what he thinks of this.

[Izzy]

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So what companies would be even worse than facebook for acquiring Oculus? Maybe if we think about how it could have been even worse, facebook won't seen quite as bad.

[JohnRedWolf87]

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So what companies would be even worse than facebook for acquiring Oculus? Maybe if we think about how it could have been even worse, facebook won't seen quite as bad.

"MySpace buys Oculus Rift"

[Izzy]

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Amazon or Walmart buys oculus Rift.

[Wafles]

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Farmville 3 VR - Watch your animals poop, just like in real life!

It's too bad that it takes 6 hours worth of stamina to stimulate their bowels. Good thing energy boosters are on sale.

this will be completely accurate

[Nullifidian]

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The thing that bothers me even more about this: Oculus Rift was a kickstarter program that was backed with over $2 million dollars, if I memory serves me correctly. It almost seems like the money that was donated went to waste because a financial super-power with plenty of money took their concept on.

2 million dollars is not a lot to begin with for development of a tool like this. It served its intended purpose, to kickstart the project. Additional funding is still required to complete the project.

I'm not happy with facebook buying oculus rift though. I fear that facebook will force you to stay "connected". It's the current trend I guess, the whole connected thing and I don't like it one bit. I don't even like facebook but there's basically no alternative offered that doesn't mingle with other services or isn't deserted. It's being shoved down your throat.