Oculus founder didn’t expect “so many death threats” after Facebook deal

If it wasn't for the money, I'd think these guys were just clueless. Billions excuse much.

What here indicates cluelessness to you?

Death threats are obviously inexcusable. This shouldn't even have to be said.

But this is a classic PR strategy. When you do something that makes many people very angry, all you have to do is wait for someone to say something incivil. Then make headlines with whatever it is they said.

Then the message shifts to how you've been wronged. And any time anyone complains or argues against what you did, associate the critic with the death threats and demand that they distance themselves from them. At this point there is no way for the critic to be heard again, and the line of inquiry is broken. Either they halt their criticism and turn to apologizing for something they didn't have anything to do with, exactly as if they were responsible - or they can be effectively smeared as supporting or even responsible for death threats. If not that individual, then whatever group they are part of can be effectively stereotyped as vicious animals who make death threats.

For example, this is what the Adria Richards people did when it became apparent that their case was controversial and Richards' actions were subject to criticism: they changed the subject to death threats, and the conversation of the original event never really resumed.

Actually, nobody really even has to say anything incivil in reality. It only has to be plausible that SOMEONE might send a death threat. (This is ALWAYS plausible; there are so many crazy people out there.) Then it's easy to claim or fake the evidence.

Oculus VR was in trouble soon as Sony and Microsoft started to develop very quickly their own VR headsets. There was just very little market let for Oculus VR that mattered. I think they basically took advantage of Facebook with some grand and likely unrealistic vision.

I would be surprised if Oculus VR ever lives up to its vision. Rather we will be using Sony and Microsoft VR headsets in the next decade if VR does in fact go mainstream for gamers -- which is still up in the air I think.

I'm not surprised. I quit playing multi-player online games (Starcraft) because of excessive violence threats and verbal abuse. It's an unfortunate side effect of the gaming community, and I feel the Oculus appealed to that community.