Swing And A Miss: Oculus’s Attempt To Block Revive App Backfires Badly

[Xenophage2112]

Don't buy an Oculus. Their exclusive title bullshit was a big reason I chose Vive.

 

[BrutalAttis]

I had sold my CV1 and switched to Vive, have not looked back.

 

[Kimonajane]

Oculus is owned by FB, no thanks don't want anything to do with that leftist clowns company.

 

[sh4dow83]

Why Oculus decided to play "Whack a Mole" is beyond me.

Really?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/facebook-oculus-rift-acquisition-virtual-reality

 

[mavikt]

Why Oculus decided to play "Whack a Mole" is beyond me.

Really?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/facebook-oculus-rift-acquisition-virtual-reality

I'm sure we all know that the Oculus kickstarter enterprise went all Dilbert after FB poured the money over them!
There you go; Idealism vs. Big corporation!

 

[none12345]

As soon as oculus sold out to facebook, you could see the writing on the wall. Before they even had a product to sell, it was destined to be this crap.

Man i really want VR to be a thing, but some forces are trying so hard to kill it before it even has a chance.

 

[Johan Kryger Haglert]

Why Oculus decided to play "Whack a Mole" is beyond me. I was a big supporter of these guys but they have certainly set the record over the last 12 months on bad decisions. Many of the bad decisions just pure stupidity.

Facebook had already done poor decisions so I would never want to support them anyway.

 

[bit_user]

I had sold my CV1 and switched to Vive, have not looked back.

And you voted down my definition of "Open Platform" because...?

What do you think it means, and why?

 

[BrutalAttis]

I had sold my CV1 and switched to Vive, have not looked back.

And you voted down my definition of "Open Platform" because...?

What do you think it means, and why?

Probably because of this crappy forum website (for me, it stutters and double posts), someones comment I had accidentally clicked down vote and could not up vote afterwards. Maybe it was yours? I reread most of you comments ... can't argue with many of them.

As someone that owned both units, I can say as far as the hardware goes both are very very close. Both have trade offs, as exciting as the VR technology is, on both units the low resolution and godrays makes arguing over their quality moot.

However I do take issue with the way Oculus is approaching its business - as a hard core gamer/enthusiast I don't appreciate how they are going about it. Its been a comedy of errors really.

The only way I can vote is with my wallet, which is why I went Vive.

 

[Jeff Fx]

The problem is they keep flip flopping on their decision, which makes them soak up profit from people that can't play the game because they keep blocking it.

Wait, when did they ever say it was okay?

If you have to use a hack to play a game, and the hack gets broken, then why so indignant? Nobody promised it would work. You took that gamble and lost.

They're rightly indignant because Palmer Luckey said they wouldn't do anything to intentionally lock out other headsets. Anyone who bought games from the Oculus store are now locked in, and will lose access to those games when they move on to a better HMD in a year or two.

Oculus wants to move units. It's not about meager game revenue, at this point - they want your eyeballs in their device.

And in their desperation, they've alienated their existing customers, and their potential future customers.

I'm not apologizing for them. Be mad, if you want. I'm just pointing out that, while this stuff might not be popular, they're really within their right. And I have yet to see how it's contradictory or hypocritical.

No one said they don't have the right to self-destruct, just that it's very foolish, and very sad. Oculus could have been something, but they sold out to Facebook. and then they sold out their users with a lock-in they were told would never happen.

 

[bit_user]

They're rightly indignant because Palmer Luckey said they wouldn't do anything to intentionally lock out other headsets.

Citation, please? If he really said that, then I apologize for suggesting otherwise.

No one said they don't have the right to self-destruct, just that it's very foolish, and very sad. Oculus could have been something, but they sold out to Facebook.

I was sad that they sold out to Facebook, but I'm not ready to write them off. It's still early days and FB has deep pockets. They can still learn from their missteps and self-correct.