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At least there's still Morpheus.

Until Twitter buys it from Sony, that is.

 

[PBY]

Thank you Sony for Morpheus. Fuck the Oculus team.

Wow.

 

[Mr. Smiley]

 

[boeso]

Kabooom

 

[Loudninja]

Love megatons, hate knee jerk negativity.

Do you expect this to be positive in anyway?

 

[mr2xxx]

Valve and Sony should save us, but damn this news sucks.

 

[CitizenCope]

My video of me trying out Morpheus from GDC just got taken down on Facebook!!
WTF!!!

Spoiler

Joking

 

[Durante]

I knew that was the goal, I just never thought it would be before THEY'VE EVER SHIPPED A RETAIL PRODUCT.

Fuuuuckkkkkkkkkk

Brendan fucking Iribe

I'm curious about this particular reaction -- what in particular is surreal about it?

(I work at FB.)

Well, you work for the antichrist and John Carmack is a pretty awesome guy. And now he works for the antichrist too. It's pretty surreal alright.

 

[kvk1]

This is disheartening.

 

[Patryn]

Apple or MS are my guesses.

Edit.
Or Google.

Amazon, perhaps.

 

[MBR]

Okay, I'll admit, the first reaction in my head was "Okay someone needs to die. now", like many others also thought if I'm reading this thread right.

But then... I... I mean, it's good for the tech, I guess :/
This will definitely help with the whole making VR mainstream part of everything, and if Zuck spent $2B on it, I fucking doubt he'll go "Okay, now what is this? 75 hz? 1080p? all these sensors? Nah, scrap that, reduce cost."

But I am worried, for sure. Deep down I fear that they'll fuck shit up.
Let's hope they basically just think it's cool and just want to finance it.

 

[Queen of Hunting]

Carmack back to id ?

 

[IHaveIce]

Man... wonder who was in this bidding war.

Amazon?

 

[sublimit]

Eh kinda makes sense.Casual and gimmicks always go hand in hand.

 

[NexusCell]

The dream is dead.

 

[AmyS]

Sony Pictures will have to make a "VR Wars" movie after Console Wars ....

 

[S0N0S]

Oculus VR sets will now come with a camera, biometric sensors, and embedded software to track all kinds of things, anonymously, about their customers. Woot!

Not going full blown paranoia yet, however it's always smart to expect the worst of anything but to hope for the best.

 

[HeroOfAlbion]

So Project Morpheus already wins, right?

 

[Usobuko]

What if the other bidder was...Microsoft?

Rather Microsoft than Facebook.

 

[pokeystaples]

Ready Player One is right around the corner ladies and gents.

 

[Taco_Human]

Time to abandon ship and hope Valve has something with VR up their sleeve.

 

[RamzaIsCool]

lol so random. If anything, thought that MS would buy them. Didn't expect this!

 

[MormaPope]

Oddest news thus far this year in the gaming industry. Don't know if its good or bad.

 

[Portugeezer]

Is this not good?

Oculus seemed like a botch job, maybe now it will have the proper funding required.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

I just don't fucking get it. Why on earth does Zuckerberg want Oculus, let alone want it enough to pay TWO FUCKING BILLION dollars for it?

$2 Billion is chump change for a toy to play with, for Mark.

Is this not good?

Oculus seemed like a botch job, maybe now it will have the proper funding required.

Botch? Superior to Morpheus.

 

[SteveO1683]

Faceworlds? Twobooks?

 

[onken]

Gahahahaha sorry I am laughing so hard on the train right now. So glad I didn't pull the trigger on that Dev kit 2. This is so nuts.

 

[Anion]

Facebox coming to E3 2014.

And yall yenzers thought the Kinect was the ultimate NSA tool

 

[udivision]

What's the problem?

 

[dekline]

I don't think this is bad.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see

 

[sandkiller]

No one saw this coming!!!

 

[Zeth]

This is exciting. I don't see this changing much, but I'm not surprised by the insane reactions.
Even a quick skimming of the PR would inform you that they'll continue to operate independently within the company, if anything accelerated by facebook.

What's the problem?

Kneejerk reactions for the most part is my bet- we'll have a better idea in 24 hours I'd guess.

 

[GlamFM]

Thank you Sony for Morpheus. Fuck the Oculus team.

Why?

 

[giapel]

Can someone explain to me all the negative reactions? What are we expecting to happen to oculus?

 

[Spring-Loaded]

So how will Oculus Rift be used for games from now on

 

[Mumford]

Holy shit. Megaton.
This is either going to be fantastic or awful. Wow.

 

[Bricky]

Wai... wha... why... how...

This is... uh...

...

Let me think about this. I'll enjoy the Thread of the Year in the meantime.

 

[Damaniel]

Damn, 13 pages of thread in 10 minutes.

Out of all the companies that could have purchased Oculus VR, why Facebook? Ugh.

 

[GoofsterStud]

Huh... Somehow just like that Sony becomes the leader.

 

[shacklesmcgee]

IF they leave Oculus alone for a bit to do their game side, 2 billion should definitely pump up the july shipment!

 

[Mariah Carey]

You guys are weird. If virtual reality is really as good as we can imagine it, do you really think we should waste that technology on just GAMES?

 

[Feep]

Summer Wars imminent

 

[King Mac of Furry Frog]

I've never had my interest in something destroyed so quickly.

There is no God.

God is dead. Nietzsche

Nietzche is dead. God

Oculus Rift is dead. Facebook.

 

[djshauny]

Didn't expect that.

Carmack going back to id? lol

 

[Randdalf]

Jonathan Blow:

I would just like to point out that John Carmack now works at Facebook.

gaben pls rescue carmack

 

[ElectricKaibutsu]

It should have been Amazon.

 

[zeroOman]

Breaking : Facebook to acquire Sony for $17 billion.

That would me make laughed loudly

 

[Clevinger]

At first glance, it might not seem obvious why Oculus is partnering with Facebook, a company focused on connecting people, investing in internet access for the world and pushing an open computing platform. But when you consider $2 BILLION DOLLARS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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[Tenki]

welp

 

[Messypandas]