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Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by s3r3nity »

manish_gill wrote: post #710
archagon wrote: post #692

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1. We don't know anything about the acquisition. We don't know why it happened. We don't know the terms. Nothing is clear yet. 2. People have a right to be angry, but what kind of hubris and egotism must a person have to tell Palmer Luckey to go fuck himself and to call him scum, right to his face? Do people really think this man went from passionate inventor to greedy businessman overnight? I think the top comment i…

1. We know enough, and we can make reasonably informed guesses. Palmer has been giving out enough information on his sub-reddit. In their own words: "nothing will change!", but we know that it's not true. Facebook is acquiring them, not entering in a Partnership with them, regardless of the PR speak. 2. Eh, while I agree that personal attacks are bad, they should have (and probably did) seen this coming. They're smar…

Hmmm until you're presented with multiple $billions (BILLIONS!) of dollars, probably money many of us will never see, and you have to make a choice between your product or probably an early retirement, it's impossible for us to judge a person and call him a "greedy businessman." I might have made the same choice.

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by mcv »

lispython wrote: post #566

Here is John Carmack's response from twitter: > For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week.I expect the FB deal will avoid several embarrassing scaling crisis for VR. > I can't follow the volume of tweets today, so if you want a real answer to something, try in a couple days after things die down. > I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR…

Surely the fact that he didn't have a Facebook account yet says something.

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by AlexandrB »

s3r3nity wrote: post #177
selmnoo wrote: post #146

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I am shattered right now. I was so happy for Oculus VR, I wanted it to become big, I wanted it to become something truly special. And now this happens. I'm horrified and speechless. This is the day I stop cheering for Oculus VR and get behind Sony's Morpheus: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/sony-morph... Notch on this deal: "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I j…

>I am shattered right now. Oh come on -- this is just ridiculous. They (Oculus) now have many many more times the resources at their disposal than before to make countless imaginative projects. I know i'll get down votes for saying this, but if Google was the buyer, there would be much more positive comments here. Use some rational analysis here, folks.

The whole thing betrays a certain lack of ambition. It's like if the early Microsoft had said: "Microsoft in every home? Nah, fuck it, let's just get acquired by IBM."

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by gnaffle »

malanj wrote: post #242
selmnoo wrote: post #146

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I am shattered right now. I was so happy for Oculus VR, I wanted it to become big, I wanted it to become something truly special. And now this happens. I'm horrified and speechless. This is the day I stop cheering for Oculus VR and get behind Sony's Morpheus: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/sony-morph... Notch on this deal: "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I j…

I am shattered right now. I was SO happy for Oculus VR, I wanted it to become big, I wanted it to become something truly special. You might be a bit premature with that comment. Mark Zuckerberg is not an idiot. He's probably smart enough to realise that Oculus need to truly remain independent for real innovation to continue. This is probably a long-term bet on VR tech by Facebook, that they know would be too expensiv…

Yeah, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are not idiots either, but the history is littered with great products that were killed off after they were bought by Google. It's entirely reasonable to be at least skeptical about this.

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by AlexandrB »

Joona wrote: post #697
hrktb wrote: post #683

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> This acquisition/partnership gives us more control of our destiny, not less! It's the first time I read a statement by Palmer, it overall seems reasonable, but this one line feels so much like BS business talk. As I interpret it, being in a situtation where they had less controled that under Facebook means they had almost no control going forward. Would it mean Oculus was going nowhere, they were seeing a strong co…

I think he meant that Oculus now has money to do things that they could not do before.

Money is not control. They sold the control they had for money.

Whether that works out for them or not is all up to Facebook now.

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by AUmrysh »

jobigoud wrote: post #690
wildermuthn wrote: post #252

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I'm thrilled. This is a brilliant move designed to bring world-shattering high-quality VR to the entire planet. Consider: Facebook has one of the largest user bases on the planet. Facebook has vast amounts of capital. Facebook has just demonstrated how important they believe VR to be. With Facebook's users, money, and engineering talent, VR is about to arrive earlier, faster, and better than anyone could imagine. I p…

Considering almost everyone hates on Facebook and is sort of forced into it due to the network effect, I wouldn't call this move brilliant .

It is brilliant on Facebook's part. They know they are widely loathed among internet users. They can use this Oculus acquisition to show the world that they aren't just some evil creepy web site with no regard for anything but their own profits.

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by ebbv »

I share the general feeling of disappointment about this. I was previously planning on ordering one of the new Oculus dev kits and excited about its possibilities. Now I want to avoid Oculus.

The good news for Sony is this makes their VR suddenly the best hope for gaming.

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by ebbv »

archagon wrote: post #609
mwilcox wrote: post #372

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Wow. He is getting demolished there.

Yikes. "Fuck you, Palmer." What the fuck? Folks, this is why creators on the internet have public meltdowns and abandon their communities and/or projects. (See: Phil Fish, TotalBiscuit, and many others.) Simply despicable how these so-called "fans", who have no idea how to run a multi-million-dollar business, can turn on a dime and start slinging vitriol at the person they claimed to idolize just a day earlier. How a…

It's because they are children. Even if they are 35, they have the maturity level of children. It's why most discourse on the internet is so bad.

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by luckyno13 »

yaeger wrote: post #708
selmnoo wrote: post #146

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I am shattered right now. I was so happy for Oculus VR, I wanted it to become big, I wanted it to become something truly special. And now this happens. I'm horrified and speechless. This is the day I stop cheering for Oculus VR and get behind Sony's Morpheus: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/sony-morph... Notch on this deal: "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I j…

You are basically everything that is wrong with consumers, today. A kneejerk reaction to something you cannot possibly see the end results of. And to even support Sonys dumbed down version of VR that has to run on this mid spec'ed PC they call the PS4 is downright stupid. When it becomes clear that Oculus does not work independently under the FB roof, then you can start your whining. Not now. Not just based on the fa…

The difference is that Nestle sells me a product, but with Facebook I am the product. (If I had a FB that is)

I quite simply dont want hardware owned by Facebook in my home. I liked the OR, probably would have bought one. But consider the data they scrape from you on their website, compiled with data from the hardware they now have in your home, and you become the new innovative advertising product that Facebook needed to stay alive in the advertising world after _just_the_website_ didn't give their clients what they wanted anymore.

Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR

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Post by RRRA »

selmnoo wrote: post #146
lawl wrote: post #48

Damn! I don't like this. I had hoped they jump in bed with valve. Yes, I just really dislike facebook, so I hate to see them aquiring something i was really excited about. Also from the article: > After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor fa…

I am shattered right now. I was so happy for Oculus VR, I wanted it to become big, I wanted it to become something truly special. And now this happens. I'm horrified and speechless. This is the day I stop cheering for Oculus VR and get behind Sony's Morpheus: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/sony-morph... Notch on this deal: "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I j…

Rather it's the day I stop cheering for VR, again... back to the 90s!
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