Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
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Re: Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
#2I was one of the people disappointed with the acquisition.. but to be honest as long as they put out a decent bit of kit and I actually get to experience VR the way they're demoing it I'll be one happy dude
Re: Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
#3Off topic, but the scroll down to be slammed into a full screen slide show is quite disorienting.
Re: Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
#4...or however you spell it.
Re: Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
#5I was one of the people disappointed with the acquisition.. but to be honest as long as they put out a decent bit of kit and I actually get to experience VR the way they're demoing it I'll be one happy dude
Looking forward to the Facebook App Store launch. What do you think its name will be?
Re: Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
#6I mean, I hope things go well for them and their partnership brings nothing but good things. From what I've seen, they've put a lot of work in to their device and made significant gains.
But Facebook doesn't and won't have a device in my life, and I refuse to buy an Occulus product because I don't believe that Facebook won't get access to usage data (or be involved as a platform middleman).
Re: Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
#7So IMO that interviewer was terrible. Iribe gave mostly good answers despite the questions - but did anyone actually think that FB was going to put their messenger in the oculus?
It is also telling to me that when they talked about the emotions that you could evoke with VR vs a 2D screen that most of them were negative.
We have a couple of the DK1's and we really had a lot of hope for the tech - but I remain unconvinced that this acquisition will be a good thing in the long run. I also didn't like how he talked about the kickstarter campaign being the first to prove that the crowdfunding model could be used to create a billion dollar company - I believe if you went back and asked most of the initial investors in the kickstarter I don't think that was something they were hoping for.
Re: Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
#8I mean, I hope things go well for them and their partnership brings nothing but good things. From what I've seen, they've put a lot of work in to their device and made significant gains. But Facebook doesn't and won't have a device in my life, and I refuse to buy an Occulus product because I don't believe that Facebook won't get access to usage data (or be involved as a platform middleman).
Oculus complete source code is available. That still doesn't guarantee their transparency; I'm certain when the next version( when under Facebook ) is released it won't have any facebook integration, and its protocols will be checked and revealed by the community anyway.
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#9So he prefers rapid growth, with the risk of the whole thing becomming a bubble instead of the stability that results from a slow build of users and developer support? That doesn't put a lot of confidence in me either.
Re: Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it
#10So he prefers rapid growth, with the risk of the whole thing becomming a bubble instead of the stability that results from a slow build of users and developer support? That doesn't put a lot of confidence in me either.
If you launch too gently, there's a risk no customer will buy it because no developer supports it, and no developer will support it because no customer will buy it.
That said, I got the impression things were going pretty well for Oculus without Facebook's help.