How Facebook's Oculus Buy Changes Future of Rift, VR

[FritzEiv]

Facebook buys Oculus VR for $2 billion. What happens now?

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[Pgooch]

This makes me sad... =(. I wouold of rather many many other companies... but Valve or Microsoft being who i would of wanted it to go to.

 

[Nuck Chorris]

"Have virtual sex with the girl you have been stalking for the last 3 years! For only $19.99!"

 

[hateitnow]

My support in Oculus just went down the tubes.This is a giant middle finger to crowd-funding... or did we forget that the whole project was crowd-funded?Facebook just trying to buy relevancy in a world where it doesn't even know what it is any more.Can't blame Palmer Luckey.... the money bags are too much...

 

[CaedenV]

Really don't like this news. Facebook has generally been bad for gaming so far. That said, most acquisitions that FB has made over the last few years have been allowed to run as they had before the FB acquisition, so heres hoping they continue to do things this way with the Oculus team.Then again, maybe it is time to pick up a $350 dev kit just in case the Rift tech gets gutted, or tied to some horrible social features that plaster your wall with everything you are doing in the digital world. I probably would not even have a FB account if it were not for my work requiring it of me. 3 years of social networking has only proven that I have a lot of friends with babies or overly zealous political views. My real friends continue to be the people who I call, text, email, and meet in person. FB has simply failed at being useful.

 

[expl0itfinder]

Could be worse. Could be EA.

 

[icraft]

🙁Should've been valve if anyone. Maybe they'll leave it alone though.

 

[ferooxidan]

another shot of Jane (eventho it is old photo)! Hoping Occulus will continue their focus on gaming first...

 

[bustapr]

just dont pester me about linking the thing to my facebook every time I use it and all will be well.

 

[haze4peace]

This makes me sad. It feels like IOI corp won.

 

[SoiledBottom]

Every time I'm wearing my Oculus VR no matter what game I'm playing...I am shooting the NSA agent first

 

[rawoysters]

Oh boy, Farmtown and Candy Crush in virtual reality.

 

[monsta]

Hopefully Sony looks after the gaming side of Virtual Reality with Morpheus

 

[ekagori]

Yaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!!... Now I can check in to a virtual McDonald's and get some virtual likes! lol

 

[Shneiky]

And now I hope Sony beats the S$$$ out of Oculus VR so Facebook can lose some money. Pretty much anything that FB buys is dead to me and a lot of people. We don't want to be traces, sold and used. Imagine your Oculus VR can now track you even if you are not on Facebook, and just when you are in the VR zone, ADVERTISEMENT!

 

[builder4]

Look on the bright side.At least it wasn't Apple.

 

[BahWiggy]

Unbelievable.......my enthusiasm for the Rift just went from an 11 out of 10 down to a 2. Well hopefully this at least got the wheels in motion for VR before Facebutt destroys it all. Today marks a sad day for gaming.

 

[KosherGrimace]

We're going to need AdBlock for OR, pronto!

 

[KosherGrimace]

We're going to need AdBlock for OR, pronto!

 

[FFH]

I think it means a ton of free to play games on oculus rift.

 

[itookmypills]

This makes me sad... =(. I wouold of rather many many other companies... but Valve or Microsoft being who i would of wanted it to go to.

Valve yes, but not Microsoft.

 

[kenh536]

Now you can be play farmville and be completely immersed in the world of in-your-face ads, pay walls, and micro-transactions! Stalk your facebook victims like your actually there! Coming soon: Our partnership to make Oculus EA exclusive!

 

[southernshark]

Anybody who saw Sony's VR product knew that something had to give. They needed a big name behind them that really had the financial backing to make a great product. I don't see this as a bad thing really. Facebook is boring, but Mark just got a little cooler in my book with this acquisition.

 

[Alec Mowat]

This was a good purchase from Facebook, they wanted to move into a hardware company and they really need a new, revolutionary product.But it's Facebook, so I'm not buying one.

 

[RooD]

I had to check my calendar to see if it was April first yet... Damn it