Facebook buys Oculus VR…
Facebook buys Oculus VR…
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Fuck it, I've was a multmultibillionnaire nerd, I'd buy Oculus Rift too.
Ultimately, it's a peripheral based upon a series of hard-to-patent or easily bendable patents. Valve has been careful to keep its [apparently superior to OR] tech open and available to interested parties, so FB's purchase doesn't sound the death knell for the tech we're all so keen on.
The opposite, I'd wager — $2Bn is one hell of a vouch, which should make Google, MS, Apple and all the big tech companies who don't already have it on their radar pinging the fuck out of it.
In ten years time, VR Headsets might be like LCD screens today - basic consumer items made my a whole range of competing manufacturers, chasing higher specs and lower price points.