Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
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Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
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Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#2So why would Oculus acquire Carbon Design, rather than contracting them to design/build their products?
Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#3So why would Oculus acquire Carbon Design, rather than contracting them to design/build their products?
They're considering a whole family of products to allow you to interact with the virtual world?
Guns, gloves, vests that make you feel like you've been hit, chairs that make you feel like you're accelerating, rotating seats like NASA uses at Space Camp, etc.
EDIT: Walking platforms like the Virtuix Omni, force-feedback devices, scents, and on and on...
Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#4So why would Oculus acquire Carbon Design, rather than contracting them to design/build their products?
Why would a company hire an employee rather than contracting them out to do the same work?
Bingo. User Bane understands why:)
Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#5So why would Oculus acquire Carbon Design, rather than contracting them to design/build their products?
Why would a company hire an employee rather than contracting them out to do the same work? Bingo. User Bane understands why:)
Because you think you'll continue needing the service the employee provides in relative perpetuity.
Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#6So why would Oculus acquire Carbon Design, rather than contracting them to design/build their products?
Because they've already been using them as a contractor* and decided it would make sense to bring them in-house full-time.
* "We’ve been working with Carbon for nearly a year on multiple unannounced projects."
Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#7So why would Oculus acquire Carbon Design, rather than contracting them to design/build their products?
Perhaps because they'd like exclusive use of their services?
Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#8I keep thinking the long term goal here is not an Oculus Rift product, but devices that tie in augmented reality and marketing / sales, with hooks to your Facebook account. I honestly see them ditching anything to do with a game display device.
Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#9So Carbon Design is now the Occulus Bellevue office, or did Occulus already have an office there?
Re: Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team
#10So Carbon Design is now the Occulus Bellevue office, or did Occulus already have an office there?
Carbon is in North Seattle next to UW. Oculus was already building up an R&D team in Redmond.