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[Garcia]

Wow. What does this mean for gaming?

The dream is over.

.

 

[QisTopTier]

This is the most random shit ever.

Edit: Well if facebook goes full derp with the product there is always the sony one I guess.... x.x bleh

 

[RCSI]

From the statement Mark Zuckerberg made:

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.

Might not be as bad as it seems, so there is still some glimmer of hope.

 

[Raist]

huh.

If someone told me "Oculus is gonna be bought. Guess."

I would have said "Amazon".

 

[m0t0k1]

courtside sports sounds good to me. Can potential tab more then the game community and expand vr.

 

[SwiftDeath]

huh.

What does it ALL MEAN???

 

[epmode]

The time's come to do it yourself, Valve.

 

[UberTag]

Get ready for candy crush, and your cousin's posts about Justin Bieber in VR.

Posts about Justin Bieber? C'mon, you need to think bigger.

Bieber will now be able to sell VR tickets to his concerts wherever they happen to be and - through the magic of virtual reality - teenage girls will be zapped into the crowd from the comfort of their own home.

All thanks to Facebook.

 

[Septimus Prime]

Welp. Looks like I'm buying Project Morpheus instead.

From the statement Mark Zuckerberg made:



Might not be as bad as it seems, so there is still some glimmer of hope.

Yeah, that's what they said about Instagram and WhatsApp, too.

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Now I can literally be a farmer in Farmville.

 

[Guevara]

Ha ha fucking Sony in pole position.

 

[Laurentius]

GB67U

 

[sense]

lmao this made me laugh more than it should. love gaf

 

[RealMeat]

Seems like they could of developed their own from scratch for a lot less than $2 billion.

 

[Jomjom]

Wait why is it so bad that Facebook has acquired them? Facebook has loads of money to support it, isn't that better than Oculus which has little to no capital relative to what Facebook has?

 

[antitrop]

Wonder how much Carmack will get of the pie.

He's already rich, does it even matter?

 

[JB2448]

I've been worried about Facebook's stability ever since its IPO. All right, consider me concerned.

 

[Kurtofan]

Coming to facebox this summer

 

[a916]

So... why exactly are people hating on this? Outside from being associated with Facebook (who itself has casual games that GAF may not approve of)... I'm not seeing any legit reasons.

 

[BannedEpisode]

Dont accidentally like your VR anime sex simulators GAF.

 

[FiggyCal]

Sony pls ;_;

 

[Namikaze1]

Now I'm hoping Sony makes Project Morpheus PC compatible. Goddammit, Facebook!

 

[Donthizz#]

huh.

and....a bidding war started. who's the other party, MS?

 

[Dahaka]

The future of Social Media.

Ready to fuck up society biiiiiiiiiiig tiiiime.

 

[ChanDangle]

VR ad machine. Game over.

 

[3bdelilah]

I never understood the build a company to only sell it to a bigger one cycle. Imagine if Apple and MS would've sold to IBM or Atari.

We need more gutsy entrepreneurs.

It's all about the money

 

[murgo]

Jesus christ... I dropped Whatsapp the second Facebook bought them. And now this. WTF?

 

[Loris146]

What the actual fuck?

 

[TechJunk]

Awwwww... nooooo.
So disappointed... that sucks

 

[DSN2K]

this is very good for VR imo, Facebook have the financial clout and ability to push VR where we all want it to go.

 

[PAULINK]

I did not understand the title until I read the press release, wtf.

 

[The Main Event]

And the WTF moment of the year goes to...

 

[Byakuya769]

I thought this was a crack team of geniuses bonded together to make the purest VR experience ever?

 

[Syf]

I have such a bad feeling.. could see them completely ruining it.

 

[funkystudent]

He's already rich, does it even matter?

Dude could always use a bigger rocket.

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

Your virtual world will be littered with ads. Ads ads ads. Everywhere. And virtual share buttons that crop up from your virtual dickhole every time you try to move.

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

 

[BraXzy]

Some choice quotes from Mark Zuckerberg which gives some hope.

Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate.

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.

 

[Raistlin]

W
T
F
?
!






























Morpheus it is

 

[Omnistalgic]

WHOA...

BOOMa...

 

[Dysun]

Terrible news for traditional gaming

 

[Mercury Land-Snake]

I would say Sony will save us but i don't like the idea of a PS Camera and Dildo Controller. unless those 2 things are not mandatory for Morpheus to work.

PS Camera will be needed for headset tracking. I'd imagine the Move isn't mandatory, the DS4 can be used like a Move anyways with a full assortment of buttons and sticks.

 

[calder]

Holy shit.

FB just has too much cash to throw around, that's a crazy "why the fuck not" buy.

 

[Ape]

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[krypt0nian]

Does this make it less or more of a threat to Morpheus?

Or is it about the same where they benefit from one another's existence?

Depends on if Carmack stays in the FB family.

 

[Talon]

John Carmack is a Facebook employee.

Weird.

 

[Arkanius]

Dreams:
Shattered

 

[SymbiantXenos]

Candy Crush VR

 

[BurnOutBrighter]

Never mind a megaton, this is a SHOCKULUS RIFT.

 

[Anion]

Farmville + Oculus = Happy grandmas

Believe

 

[Astrates]

I dislike this.