flyinpiranha
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Dread has nothing to do with "lol popups", at least directly, for me. It's more about the data-mining, which Facebook is a king at. It's about the fears of the Rift switching to closed APIs that Facebook completely controls and requires, and can alter at their will at any time to inject anything they desire. Perhaps all avenues of Rift-compatible software distribution will be required to go through a walled garden. 30% of the profit, and nothing too naughty, of course. Maybe it's even about not widening the content approach to the Rift, as many VR fans ultimately hope for, but instead shifting the direction away from the hardcore gaming market.
Palmer Luckey can come out and swear up and down that nothing's going to change, except the resources available to them... But he just sold his company for 2 Billion dollars. To Facebook. No matter what the outcome will actually be, he's going to placate consumers. He can't expect us to take him completely to his word. Not yet.
Wouldn't that require Facebook also owning your PC OS? I mean, the Rift, as it is now, is a display. Just like an HDTV it needs certain hardware and stuff designed for it. So how is Facebook going to control my PC which would control how I display my games in order to get ads onto the Rift in software that is unrelated to Facebook?
It seems people are using "walled garden" in relation to PS4, XB1, iOS, and to a lesser extent Android ... but those are content delivery methods, those aren't just the displays themselves. PS4 and XB1 need a display, while iOS and Android are all in one hardware/display setups. It just seems people are getting this reversed, the Rift doesn't have games on it, it doesn't have an OS, it doesn't have proprietary chargers and inputs, it's a TV you put on your face. Where it goes from here is unknown but at this point in time I don't see how a "walled garden" could even happen realistically.