Facebook buys oculus rift, and everyone goes stupid.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

All these people going on about how Facebook will now ruin oculus rift, makes me lol. People don't seam to understand how business works.

Also notch will no longer make minecraft for the rift cause he hates Facebook. Like I care, minecraft is shit anyway.



Discuss.

[Lias]

Large company buying little company for lots of money, is a story that rarely ends well for fans of teh little companies technology.

[Plasma]

Large company buying little company for lots of money, is a story that rarely ends well for fans of teh little companies technology.

^This. Pretty disappointing, they will be gutting for IP.

[Bounty Hunter]

Valve have VR covered I've heard.

derp: had my facts wrong.

FUCKSHIT

[Tiwaking!]

Large company buying little company for lots of money, is a story that rarely ends well for fans of teh little companies technology.

I didnt sign up for this shitty future

Could someone point me to where we were meant to go?

[Bounty Hunter]

Large company buying little company for lots of money, is a story that rarely ends well for fans of teh little companies technology.

I didnt sign up for this shitty future

Could someone point me to where we were meant to go?

I'm this close from closing my facebook account.

But all my class mates and my project team use it to organise shit.

November, this year, I close it for good.

[Tiwaking!]

I'm this close from closing my facebook account.

That is odd. I am considering creating a Facebook account. I was banned from Facebook in 2012 for being a bot, which was a shame because I was only 500 friends away from getting 5000 friends

I am now convinced Tiwa has created a bot to post for him.

Bravo Tiwa.

Here. There. And Facebook:

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Large company buying little company for lots of money, is a story that rarely ends well for fans of teh little companies technology.

Agreed.

But Large companies buy small companies all the time (Google, Microsoft, EA). What annoys me it that people hate on these large companies because they bought something they (the fans) love. And also, as in this case, say the smaller company "sold out".

Of course they sold out; for 2 billion dollars. Who wouldn't?

It's just business, a company is perfectly entitled to buy another company.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

I didnt sign up for this shitty future

Could someone point me to where we were meant to go?

Go here
https://www.spaceglasses.com/

Not yet owned by Google or Facebook.

[Scunner]

I can see how someone who backed and supported Oculus from Kickstarter might be pissed that they sold out to a company with Facebook's reputation.

It is, however, stupid to throw a hissy fit until it's revealed exactly what Facebook want to do with the Rift and how much Oculus's plans change.

I wonder if Facebook have a VR app like Playstation Home in mind.

[Kayne]

I'm one of the people who are peeved about it

After playing around on the oculus... 9 months back or something, and hearing about their future plans, You knew where they were headed, where their intent lied, etc etc.

With Mark Zuckerbergz saying shit like...

"Mobile is the platform of today, and now we're also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow," said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, in the press release. "Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate."

I feel that he doesn't quite get who the target market of the Oculus were. He's already talking about how it can be used to share media off of social networking sites so you "feel like you were there too" (Not a quote)

While I don't play minecraft anymore, I agree with what Notch has said, You don't know where their intent lies, which is obviously worrying for people who have been waiting for the oculus for 2years+ now.

Obviously it's early days, but still, It's a worry.

[Pyromanik]

Facebook Virtual Sex Chat™

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Facebook Virtual Sex Chat™

Invite please.

[mattnz]

I'll be pleased if they pick up the pace of development, it's been dragging on and Sony has just thrown their hat into the ring.

[Xsannz]

yay in VR advertising because thats all Facebook really is is your info full of fucking advertising..

look at the latest round of layout changes.. and then tell me you don't see the following happening.

Rift released as it was intended - lots of us buy it and hope for the best..

it is really good and then suddenly boom a few software updates that are required to use latest games and BAM.. popup FB advertising..

i can just see this as a doomed tech now.

[Craigor]

Perhaps it will be perfectly fine, you just won't see half the stuff in your game because it will be "filtered out" for you..
But that's ok, there will be an option to turn the filtering off.. It just won't work properly.

[Clin]

It will be fine. You can still buy dev kits and developers aren't going to throw all their work away.

Notch was "in talks" not "in development" so nothing of value was lost.

[Codex]

I was hoping rift would develop into something like on Sword Art Online series, but unlikely to happen with derpbook owning it -____-

[Kopfjaeger]

Reddit says

[Clin]

I was hoping rift would develop into something like on Sword Art Online series, but unlikely to happen with derpbook owning it -____-

It's a platform. Anything could be developed for it. Facebook is about money, no point in locking the platform down.

Listen to me shilling.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Facebook just want to get into hardware. Like Google and Microsoft are already.

[Bounty Hunter]

I wish google bought Oculus.

[Retardobot]

Just makes it easier to hate Facebook due to the greedy nature.

[Kayne]

I was hoping rift would develop into something like on Sword Art Online series, but unlikely to happen with derpbook owning it -____-

If only.

I'd love to take a 6 month forced vacation in a game.

Of course, I say that now.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Just makes it easier to hate Facebook due to the greedy nature.

Who's greedy?