This sucks so unbelievably bad.
Facebook acquires Oculus VR
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Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR
#152Wow, I never saw Jon Carmack working for Zuck. To be honest, they aren't even in the same league. This makes me a sad panda.
Suck has a hundre John Carmacks (of various fields) working for him
Which is sad because in the end Facebook is all about showing ads to people who don't want to see them.
Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR
#153Why on earth would Oculus sell at all, least of all to Facebook? What possible reason could Facebook have to purchase a company so far removed from its core competency? People in the /r/oculus reddit are already expressing strong feelings of betrayal - eighty comments in under ten minutes, none positive. What a bizarre move.
Google is also investing heavily into stuff thats far from their core competency, like robots and self driving cars. I just hope FB don't mess with it too much in the next few years.
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#154no more carmack pouring his passion. it will be left to 'product managers' in facebook.
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#155As long as they don't turn it into Facebook Glass (which it sounds like it may eventually become) it may not be the worst thing. I think with Facebooks cash the Oculus team might be able to get a quality consumer headset for gaming out a lot faster than as a "startup" without having to worry about multiple additional rounds of funding. The founders also probably couldn't say no to $2b...I wonder if they'll bounce when they can or who even is going along with the acquisition.
Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR
#156Why on earth would Oculus sell at all, least of all to Facebook? What possible reason could Facebook have to purchase a company so far removed from its core competency? People in the /r/oculus reddit are already expressing strong feelings of betrayal - eighty comments in under ten minutes, none positive. What a bizarre move.
Agreed it's bizarre from Facebook's perspective. But completely logical from Oculus' perspective -- if someone offers you $2B to cash out before you've even launched, you'd be silly to say no.
Does it really always have to be about money? This is just stupid.
Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR
#157Damn! 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…
Eh, this is the type of sensationalist comment that disappoints me when it makes it to the top of the comments list, because you offer no real commentary outside of "I just really dislike facebook" -- proving there is a circle-jerk of hate on FB in the HN community.
>I prefer to actually visit my doctor where facebook doesn't get all the data about it.
Until you use a self-hosted email client, self-hosted calendar server, a dumb phone (i.e. not a smartphone like android) , etc. -- Google and/or some other company already is "getting" the data about your doctor and you.
The way I interpreted this, I think about all the cases where open communication is increasingly fostered. Imagine someone like Snowden being able to communicate with his girlfriend again; imagine traveling across the world, and having your mom/pop see what you are seeing. THAT's the cool stuff/ideas we should be upvoting.
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#158whoa. didn't see this coming. Doesn't really fit Carmack's style at all. Wonder if this deal was done over him...
Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR
#159I'm not super thrilled by this but at least it's better than GM acquiring Tesla.
Re: Facebook acquires Oculus VR
#160Zuck is buying his way into the next generation of consumer digital consumption.
Trying the Oculus for the first time was one of those "this is going to be huge" moments in my life akin to seeing the first iPhone demo.
FB's entire business went to mobile, and pre-IPO there was a lot of discussion around if they were going to figure mobile out.
Now they own arguably the best team and technology that's going to be in front of the next wave of consumption.
Palmer & the early Oculus team deserve the huge success, but man I hope they stay hungry and keep innovating given the brilliance that they gave us with the 1st Dev Kit.