Facebook Just Bought Oculus VR

"Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate."

Okay... I could see Facebook tossing large sums of money around at already established companies just because they can and because the direction those companies are headed were already great, but this one line fills me with dread and makes me immediately want to seek alternative startups in the VR arena. Social has nothing to do with immersing myself in a virtual world of infinite possibilities.

God fucking damn it....

Oculus were only able to hype their product because they were able to deliver. You can checkout a ton of third-party impressions regarding their numerous prototypes all over the web. They're not playing around.

Crockulus Shit

Hm.

Well, not jumping for joy here but preemptively screaming that the sky is falling is silly too. See what happens, I guess.

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This could be really good with Facebook's mass market exposure... who am I kidding this is probably going to end terribly.

Yikes!!! I just went from eager to weary.

I don't know if this is the worst news ever or the beginning of the cyberpunk era...either way humanity is SCREWED. Phil Phish was RIGHT!

Bring it into the light to shoot it in the face ... that's twisted your twisted I mean shooting it in the face is bad enough but to do it in the light ... your a sick person.

sigh..

I don't have a facebook, I don't want a facebook, I don't want to associate at all with facebook, and every time I see a facebook icon on a webpage or TV I am annoyed.

This sucks.

Nothing says mobile like strapping an opaque, tethered virtual reality device to your face.

This is my opinion too.

It just really bothers me. I know they'll be smart about it, but as someone else said, having a company that believes that mobile games are the future getting their hands on the Oculus Rift worries me.

I honestly thought this was a joke when I first read it.

I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing (the resources available to Oculus just increased significantly as well as the potential audience for VR), but it is totally unexpected. It seems too early to be super bummed out by this, until evidence appears to the contrary.

They wouldn't buy the thing if they didn't see it as a way to further their ad-revenue based business model.

If somebody pays you 2 Billion, you don't get to call anything anymore. Despite what the marketing teams will tell us.

Looks like I'm a Sony Morpheus fanboy then.

"Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate."

"We believe virtual reality will be heavily defined by social experiences that connect people in magical, new ways..."

Why does that word send shivers down my spine? Can any good come of this? It feels like Oculus just sold it's soul to the Devil.

wow was oculus a private company? I wonder how answering to shareholders will affect development?

Oculus valued at a little over 10% of a Whatsapp

I think this is the vanguard of the future, where the Matrix is going to become reality.

I was really interested in buying the final product, but with this news my excitement is gone.

I was so excited for the Oculus Rift. It's all gone after reading this. They're gonna turn it into some social bullshit.

@bushpusherr: you know what, I hope you're right but man I just feel deflated right now.

I do not approve. I do not. I guess I should be happy for the Oculus folks. I am.

Yeah...

@hollitz: Funny?

Wait... What?

I was really interested in buying the final product, but with this news my excitement is gone.

If Burger King bought Oculus, then we'd might have had a chance of getting a VR Sneak King

er...

Well, we'll see what comes of this. At least Oculus has mad dough to throw around.

But hold on a second.

Sorry, my head hurts.

Facebook bought Oculus?

Do they suppose our grandmas are going to strap on a rift to better see their grandkids? What's the social hook on this thing? We need like 10 years at least to turn Oculus Rift into Oculus Glasses so what's the payout in the next 5 years?

I do remember FB saying they wanted to make real games once upon a time, so maybe this is all connected. OR maybe FB becomes a bigger games publisher and wields Oculus like a closed hardware platform. But that sounds like a money sink.

So I dunno! Cool! Great! What?

I saw the story on yahoo, and I think the picture at the top is hilarious.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/facebook-is-buying-virtual-reality-headset-company-80713158661.html

So about that Morpheus thing...

this is the end of dog racing (in VR)

here's my two cents into what happens from here:

the Internet goes crazy at the idea thinking its gonna be full of data mining, ad-serving, social sharing candy farm saga ville games. Sony's project Morpheus gets lots of support from fans in the same spirit as the #ps4noDRM 'for the players' hype.

After the PR damage is done, Facebook tries to stress that "hey this team is still the same team building the same project you already wanted" and although releasing as a competent device, the damage from Internet shitstorm and pissed off kickstarter backers means that 'core-gamers' and reddit reader types will slate it. despite it being quite successful in the COD playing, candy crushing mainstream.

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.

I feel alright about this.

Uh oh.

...Woah..

This could be a VERY good thing in terms of the funding, but a VERY bad thing in terms of utilization.

It's in situations like these that I feel completely outside the gaming nerd community. I don't use FB heavily but the hate (and love for Twitter) has always been a weird nerd-specific thing that I've just never understood.

This is fucking bullshit. I was so excited for it. Now... I guess watch it turn to a pile of crap?

What?

I guess. But I was really looking forward to all the weird stuff people will do with OR on PC

I am on board with this alternate timeline where Burger King bought Oculus. VR Sneak King sounds rad. Haha.

WHaaaaaa?!?! @beaudacious This is good because more money for Oculus but also bad because facebook. As long as Facebook lets it be its own thing, then this will be good but if they announce the "facebook virtual reality mobile gameset"... then I guess Sony is our only hope.

Is that Will Smith?