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Facebook has acquired Oculus VR for 2 Billion US Dollars

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BadWolf

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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?
 
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eot

Banned
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Please tell me this is a joke.
 
entremet

entremet

Member
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.
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
Oculus Joins Facebook
March 25, 2014 - 02:35 PDT by Oculus VR

We started Oculus with a vision of delivering incredible, affordable, and ubiquitous consumer virtual reality to the world. We’ve come a long way in the last 18 months: from foam core prototypes built in a garage to an incredible community of active and talented developers with more than 75,000 development kits ordered. In the process, we’ve defined what consumer virtual reality needs to be and what it’s going to require to deliver it.

A few months ago, Mark, Chris, and Cory from the Facebook team came down to visit our office, see the latest demos, and discuss how we could work together to bring our vision to millions of people. As we talked more, we discovered the two teams shared an even deeper vision of creating a new platform for interaction that allows billions of people to connect in a way never before possible.

Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve joined forces with Facebook to create the best virtual reality platform in the world.

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 it more carefully, we’re culturally aligned with a focus on innovating and hiring the best and brightest; we believe communication drives new platforms; we want to contribute to a more open, connected world; and we both see virtual reality as the next step.

Most important, Facebook understands the potential for VR. Mark and his team share our vision for virtual reality’s potential to transform the way we learn, share, play, and communicate. Facebook is a company that believes that anything is possible with the right group of people, and we couldn’t agree more.

This partnership is one of the most important moments for virtual reality: it gives us the best shot at truly changing the world. It opens doors to new opportunities and partnerships, reduces risk on the manufacturing and work capital side, allows us to publish more made-for-VR content, and lets us focus on what we do best: solving hard engineering challenges and delivering the future of VR.

Over the next 10 years, virtual reality will become ubiquitous, affordable, and transformative, and it begins with a truly next-generation gaming experience. This partnership ensures that the Oculus platform is coming, and that it’s going to change gaming forever.

We’ll see you in the Metaverse!

– Palmer, Brendan, John and the Oculus team
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Fireblend

Banned
The level of overreaction in this thread is mind-blowing. Come on guys, it's not like we're going to be prompted to login on Facebook everytime the Oculus is turned on.

VR goes way, way beyond gaming. That's what Facebook is going to be aiming at.
 
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test_account

XP-39C²
The big suprise to me is the 2 billion dollar pricetag. I mean, i'm very surprised that Facebook would buy Oculus Rift too, but that they wanted to pay 2 billion dollars for me is even more surpring.
 
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StuBurns

Banned
Well, that was the happiest I've been about video games since I was a child, what a wonderful two weeks it's been.

I'll be angry forever again now.

Well, until Valve announce they're shipping VR hardware now, I'd expect that news by November.
 
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The Weeknd

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Vinc said:
This is either the best or worst thing that could happen to gaming as we know it. The most promising upcoming tech that could reignite the mainstream market's interest in core games was just bought by Facebook.
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Because Morpheus doesn't exist and Oculus Rift was going to become the new Wii, depsite not many modern PCs being able to properly use it, right?
 
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Man-is-Obsolete

Member
Well this is certainly interesting. Part of me wants the adoption of VR to be far reaching and another part of does not feel Facebook should be involved one bit.
 
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Memento_Mori15

Member
I think this is the first announcement I actually said "what the fuck" out loud. I expected Valve to buy them out, not Facebook. What will facebook do with this? I'm curious to see what, but I would have preferred a gaming focus company to buy them.
 
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VMGamez

Neo Member
Wow!, I wonder what their plans are for this now. What types of Social experiences could they be talking about?
 
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