Facebook buys Occulus Rift for $2bn
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Love how Notch has pulled out... saying Minecraft WAS going to support Oculus Rift, but now Facebook have bought it, he's like NOPE.
... Would've been pretty cool to play it to be honest, but oh well, Candy Crush Saga will have to do...
Oh yeah... an article from Forbes if you want to read it:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/ ... s-him-out/
I know this sounds like whiny bitch, but while this probably doesn't effect the goals of Oculus at all, it's really knocked everyone's faith in them for some reason, myself included and frankly I don't even know why.
The only thing that will get me interested in VR again would be if Valve do something.
I think I identified why this bugs me; Oculus and Valve are companies that value research over making a quick-buck, Facebook tends to rush their experiments out the door with no audience testing (FB Home) and expects people to just like it (See my pun?), with Oculus under Facebook, sure they might be continuing with research towards a fantastic first-product, but now they have a massive shadow over them which I'm scared will encourage them to try and ship early, I'm worried they will become the ones who ruin VR and not the other companies that everyone expected would.
And John Carmack working for a company owned by Facebook? Gives me the chills.
EDIT: Notch's full statement pretty much says everything that we all seem to feel for some reason.
The only thing that will get me interested in VR again would be if Valve do something.
I think I identified why this bugs me; Oculus and Valve are companies that value research over making a quick-buck, Facebook tends to rush their experiments out the door with no audience testing (FB Home) and expects people to just like it (See my pun?), with Oculus under Facebook, sure they might be continuing with research towards a fantastic first-product, but now they have a massive shadow over them which I'm scared will encourage them to try and ship early, I'm worried they will become the ones who ruin VR and not the other companies that everyone expected would.
And John Carmack working for a company owned by Facebook? Gives me the chills.
EDIT: Notch's full statement pretty much says everything that we all seem to feel for some reason.
I know, Abrash has pretty much dedicated his time to solving problems with VR and making their solutions public (I didn't just pick Valve randomly, that would have been weird "I'll only be interested in VR if Zenimax decided to enter the market"), I mean if Valve announce their own hardware, they have in-house built devices (That are massively expensive so not for consumer release) but if they thought "We can deliver something better than Oculus" and go ahead and do that then I'll be straight back into VR.Nachos":2ggweuuw said:
Right now I'm going to wait for the Oculus CV1 release before judging if VR is something I want to get back into.
Xilef":jengwvmd said:
I'm pretty sure I read that when Valve started firing people, a small team was formed based around their old VR team and they are working on their own VR headset.
...but I also wonder if they are in too deep with OR that they won't stop supporting it as Steam has VR support on some levels now.
I think it was a great move financially, but a bad move this early in the game.