SniperHunter
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i guess facebook might look into a second life and home type experience with oculus implementation
Crowd funding isn't crowd investing.
Still feels bad.
Oculus somewhat unpredictable future just became crystal clear: virtual reality is coming, and its going to change the way we play games forever.
Most importantly, it means a better Oculus Rift with fewer compromises even faster than we anticipated.
So my $300 Kickstarter investment entitles me to a cut of this, right?
Anyway, this is kind of a bummer
Um, because Project Morpheus looks way more appealing now?
Fucking Facebook is now in charge of Oculus Rift. FACEBOOK
Reddit comment made me laugh
READ THIS YOU BASTARDS
from our dear leader palmer luckey
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21cy9n/the_future_of_vr/
Wow....
Why does it feel like a sucker punch? Facebook?!?
so come 2015 I get to choose between a giant megacorporation knee deep in nefarious exploitative practices to bring me a full fat VR experience and a second giant megacorporation knee deep in debt whose VR solution will anchor me to their underpowered proprietary crap box.
LOL at the over reaction of people on this board. So ridiculous.
Oculus will now be able to release the Rift faster, with better quality and potentially at a better price to reach mass consumption. This wil have no impact on the gaming side as the drivers will still be released to handle games and whatever else Facebook has in store.
If anything this puts Sony in a bad position as the rift will be a mainstream product that everyone will be aware of and potentially buy compared to Sony's niche gaming market.
Just in what way can Facebook support Oculus? Do you happen to believe that the kind of people who care about facebook will care about some VR bs?
This makes it even funnier. I wanted to go to sleep now but all of a sudden I read it on twitter and now I've been laughing for almost half an hour! This is surreal.Actually, I think I'm more mad that they only paid 2 billion for Oculus VR when they bought a shitty app for 19 billion earlier this year.
At least Apple knows jack shit about hardware...Oh god. At least it's not Apple.
Closed and consumer focused (Bye bye enthusiast perks, but hey it's cheap)so come 2015 I get to choose between a giant megacorporation knee deep in nefarious exploitative practices to bring me a full fat VR experience and a second giant megacorporation knee deep in debt whose VR solution will anchor me to their underpowered proprietary crap box.
The true worst result.You know whats even worse, Facebook logo on your rift.
They got scared of Sony's announcement.
The worst is if they call it the social rift or friendlist rift. I still can't believe that this tech is now at Zuckerbergs hands.You know whats even worse, Facebook logo on your rift.
Wait Amazon buys into games, Facebook buys Oculus.... What the hell is happening?
Wow, this thread is like KNEEJERK APOCALYPSE.
I'd be alright with that.or Sony.
Yeah what about the kickstarter backers? They give money to this project to get it going, then the makers of the product just sell it to someone else for 2,000,000,000 and laugh their way to the bank while the kickstarters now have 0 say in what is going on from now on?
Man ...
That is pretty low. I dunno. New territory.
haha just saw this after I posted comment. EXACTLY what I thought too lol
That the only logical answer.
I'm not serious
Was this the end game since that earlier funding?IRVINE, CALIFORNIA (Dec 13, 2013) Oculus VR, Inc., creators of the highly anticipated Oculus Rift, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series B funding to finalize development of its virtual reality platform and ecosystem. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, which also included significant additional investment from the Series A investors Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Formation 8.
Founded in 2009 by angel investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz is world renowned for supporting the growth of emerging technology companies that change the world, including Facebook, Airbnb, Jawbone, Twitter and Skype. As part of the round, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon will join Oculus VRs board of directors...
Yeah what about the kickstarter backers? They give money to this project to get it going, then the makers of the product just sell it to someone else for 2,000,000,000 and laugh their way to the bank while the kickstarters now have 0 say in what is going on from now on?
Man ...
That is pretty low. I dunno. New territory.