Topic: Facebook acquire's Oculus VR for $2 Billion

[Kingshango]

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1

I'm excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire Oculus VR, the leader in virtual reality technology.

 Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. For the past few years, this has mostly meant building mobile apps that help you share with the people you care about. We have a lot more to do on mobile, but at this point we feel we're in a position where we can start focusing on what platforms will come next to enable even more useful, entertaining and personal experiences.

 This is where Oculus comes in. They build virtual reality technology, like the Oculus Rift headset. When you put it on, you enter a completely immersive computer-generated environment, like a game or a movie scene or a place far away. The incredible thing about the technology is that you feel like you're actually present in another place with other people. People who try it say it's different from anything they've ever experienced in their lives.

 Oculus's mission is to enable you to experience the impossible. Their technology opens up the possibility of completely new kinds of experiences.

 Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate. The Rift is highly anticipated by the gaming community, and there's a lot of interest from developers in building for this platform. We're going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games. Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook to achieve this.

 But this is just the start. 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 face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.

 This is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.

 These are just some of the potential uses. By working with developers and partners across the industry, together we can build many more. One day, we believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality will become a part of daily life for billions of people.

 Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming and we have a chance to build it together. I can't wait to start working with the whole team at Oculus to bring this future to the world, and to unlock new worlds for all of us.

Holy crap!

[Shiroi Koumori]

Uh oh... It is turning into Big Brother mode all over again.

[Abnormal Freak]

Uh oh... It is turning into Big Brother mode all over again.

While the danger of privacy concerns is present, I'm optimistic enough not to have my tinfoil hat on right now. Having a social media giant like Facebook buy out Oculus VR is a huge step toward the furthering of cyberspace.

So long as Facebook doesn't bend to any government will (a more real Big Brother situation), I'm not all that worried.

[Morning star]

Want to see some hardcore proof that we are being tracked? I googled oculus vr and this was in the search results.

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Notice my user name from this site? WTF is this about?! Somebody smarter than me please explain this.

[K.G. Morder]

Game over.

They sold out.

This is the kind of thing you risk when you fund a kickstarter.

I have no interest in seeing the Oculus Book. Fuck Carmack for being a sellout.

Notch (of Minecraft) has actually decided to scrap plans he had for an oculus version of Minecraft because facebook "creeps him out". Not just because of the obvious privacy concerns and all that, but the way he put it: he makes games. Facebook has no interest in games. they don't do games. they are a social company. what maters to them is numbers. how many people are using facebook.

It is completely out of left field for Facebook to purchase something that has nothing to do with it. But, as Zuckerberg himself has said, he definitely plans to bring the social to the Rift, as well as facebook advertising.

Congratulatory comments on his post on his profile even suggest how great it would be to incorporate user targeted advertisement.

Let's face it, twitter is siphoning Facebook's popularity. Younger crowds flock more to twitter, as do celebrities. other demographics are also starting to not use it as often or at all.

Facebook needed to stay relevant or go the way of Myspace. So Zuckerberg bought the OR in order to make social media virtual. It's all because of facebook, and the OR WILL become a facebook integrated social platform. This is facebook first, gaming second. Thinking otherwise is naive, and actually stupid.

This is going to fail, and I hope so. You dont sell out like that when the people who funded your project were promised one thing, and suddenly you get greedy and say "fuck it, let's sell it to social media".

I don't care if he's DOOM's daddy, Carmack does NOT get a free pass for this.

Time to look towards Valve and Sony now. Oculus Rift is Dead.

[KaZudra]

Carmack was always talking Shit he doesn't know about, why people are calling him a genius all of the sudden is beyond me...
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/50277106856370176

Anyways, Morpheus won the VR competition, Oculus is Dead thanks to Facebook.

Hope it was worth the 2 Billion, you aren't gonna make that much back from gamers or people with common sense.

[Abnormal Freak]

Carmack has been called a genius since the early '90s. Where've you been? :p Ain't no alluvasudden.

[Kale]

Notch makes games? When did it become plural?

Carmack is and has always been a talented programmer. I don't know if I would consider him a genius, but hey, he has done games a good job with Doom.

[KaZudra]

Carmack has been called a genius since the early '90s. Where've you been? :p Ain't no alluvasudden.

He's been rather irrelevant last gen, Personally I love Doom but BFG edition was the work of an idiot.

[Abnormal Freak]

In what way? They did a good job in porting an old game to a console and streamlining some of it to make it more playable with a controller. It ran pretty well optimized on both consoles without much quality drop while maintaining a good speed. The id-ported versions of the first two games on the PS3 also ran and looked better than the XBLA versions.

It sure as shit runs better than a lot of newer FPSs did on the PS3/360.