What I've learned reading this thread is that there seems to be people who wanted VR to be specifically for gaming. Somehow, that idea never even crossed my mind. What VR can do for things like immersion in game worlds is undoubtedly incredible to ponder, but it's also amazing to imagine what VR can do for things like social media and online education.
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Facebook has acquired Oculus VR for 2 Billion US Dollars
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What I've learned reading this thread is that there seems to be people who wanted VR to be specifically for gaming. Somehow, that idea never even crossed my mind. What VR can do for things like immersion in game worlds is undoubtedly incredible to ponder, but it's also amazing to imagine what VR can do for things like social media and online education.
Yeah...no. I know you're getting hammered, but you're swinging too far back the other way. Too much optimism.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
This has to be a joke right?
A company that runs a social network that gets it's revenue from marketing and ads owns it.
I'll give you a few guesses to what to expect.
Gaming will probably be apart of it somehow but not in the spotlight anymore imo
Why would they?
Sectorseven
Member
I'm just a little confused how this fits into their vision.
Everyone was under the impression Facebook was after the mobile market. Some might even associate them with mobile already. VR in it's current incarnation is a very stationary design, which puts it next to desktop PCs and consoles, both shrinking markets.
Everyone was under the impression Facebook was after the mobile market. Some might even associate them with mobile already. VR in it's current incarnation is a very stationary design, which puts it next to desktop PCs and consoles, both shrinking markets.
Betta Lines
Member
My thoughts are:
Only $2 billion?
Not sarcasm.
Only $2 billion?
Not sarcasm.
Ah-huh. And Facebook is going to require a bunch of software and hardware engineers to start working on advertising models, instead of the product they just bought. Because Facebook has no other way to hire a few dozen engineers for anything less than the price of $2 billion.
Facebook is a games platform (among other things). Occulus is a games platform (among other things). Facebook made it's billions off of it's ability to recruit widespread developer support, which is currently the ONE and ONLY thing Occulus needs
The focus of the Occulus was never exclusively on "hardcore" gamers.
Speaking of the "fantasy" of Facebook giving away it's products at a massive loss, you realize their main consumer product is given away for free, right?
I'm sure not much needed to be said beyond '2 billion.'
Why is everyone freaking out? What does this change other than Oculus now has a ton of capital for R&D and marketing their product to the world?
Is Facebook notorious for tampering with the successful companies they've acquired? Did they mess up Instagram?
Honest questions here, I haven't closely followed tech news for a while.
Is Facebook notorious for tampering with the successful companies they've acquired? Did they mess up Instagram?
Honest questions here, I haven't closely followed tech news for a while.
thats a weird way of reading into it, unless you think sony is gonna let morpheus work on pc
gutterboy44
Member
Ahhhh, Facebook account permanently deleted (I hope so at least, NSA lulz!!!) Feels good. I have honestly been looking for a reason to do this for a while. Maybe my wife gets tired of it, a few close funny friends stop posting. But this seems as good as reason as any. I feel incredibly defeated. I put both my money (kickstarter) and hopes (not buying a next gen console or updrading PC until owning OR hardware) on what OR had to bring to the future of gaming. Now we have to deal with the umbrella of Facebook which has universally shit on everything it acquires. Fuck off and so long.
SwiftDeath
Member
Facebook wants VR to be a consumer-wide accessible product. That is great for the future of VR as a medium that matters but I personally cannot fathom how that vision can fit within the confines of the original OR vision [Hardware-wise].
The average consumer isn't going to have a powerful computer to push VR hardware to appropriate levels so I have no idea how you go about making a VR product that is accessible to consumers at a widespread level unless you limit your scope. Not to mention that the cost of the hardware would also be an important aspect considering what your average consumer is likely willing to spend on what many would view as a peripheral
I hope Oculus can maintain their initial vision and deliver the product that gamers have come to expect but I think there are plenty of logical reasons to worry about the future of OR from a PC gaming perspective
You realize facebook is a service not a product right? And that monetization occurs mostly through ads? Thus by your logic we should expect free to low cost hardware and heavy ads? Or what?
The average consumer isn't going to have a powerful computer to push VR hardware to appropriate levels so I have no idea how you go about making a VR product that is accessible to consumers at a widespread level unless you limit your scope. Not to mention that the cost of the hardware would also be an important aspect considering what your average consumer is likely willing to spend on what many would view as a peripheral
I hope Oculus can maintain their initial vision and deliver the product that gamers have come to expect but I think there are plenty of logical reasons to worry about the future of OR from a PC gaming perspective
You realize facebook is a service not a product right? And that monetization occurs mostly through ads? Thus by your logic we should expect free to low cost hardware and heavy ads? Or what?
davidjwallace
Neo Member
Too many will ignore this, but you are absolutely right.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
They were already taking way too long to release the damn thing. Now everyone from Facebook will want their hands in the pie to make it a "social experience" and mine as much data from users as they can.
It's going to do nothing but dilute the product and draw it away from its focus.
It's going to do nothing but dilute the product and draw it away from its focus.
Not gonna lie. She is hot as fuck.
Mister Chippy
Member
Zuckerberg plz
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
what in the fuck??
why??
why??
This can not be emphasised enough
Lasthope106
Member
Exactly because of that you stated. Google already HAS Glass. Facebook has nothing. Now they have something that could be potentially be a lot better than Glass.
Ads... Now even closer to your retina.
Can you imagine playing a game like Fallout and a floating ad window is hovering just barely outside your peripheral vision? And when you look over to see wtf it is via head tracking, it immediately takes you to an app store to purchase coin for Bejeweled Blitz or Candy Crush?
It will be glorious!
the only beautiful thing in this thread. :>
Coreda
Member
I remember that now, lol
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Did he delete this tweet? I can't find it anymore.
It's a tweet on Facebook.
CurlySaysX
Banned
My mutual maturation needs over Facebook are about to become a lot more intimate.
In zuckerberry we trust.
In zuckerberry we trust.
Riedinizzo
Banned
wait, wat
look man, i'm all for bathing in relativism for the purposes of forum civility, but i bought this GPU on a budget back in 2011 and it's still going toe-to-toe with the PS4. i'd never want to use this dogged old piece of crap to power the requirements of virtual reality.
come 2015 have you got any idea of how far GPU tech will have come? letalone CPU tech, which will surely prove an even more limiting factor for consoles.
if you live your life in some strange console time capsule where tech starts off mediocre then freezes in time for eight years, i guess the morpheus seems like a pretty good option. but for the rest of us who actually want a VR experience which makes the most of available technology, it's a compromise too far.
Ok, I'm very down on this whole thing, but I think you're overstating it. The initial product at the very least will still be a normal PC accessory with a normal API. Nothing will prevent a Steam game or any other program from using it. Totally without Facebook.
Yes. As I said, at least CV1.
Yeah, they sound scared. For once I feel with EA.
That sounds bitter.
Captain Tuttle
Member
It's a good old fashioned GAF meltdown.
Strange news though
Strange news though