Facebook buys Oculus VR…
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- detritus0
I hate facebook; Closed my account ..what?.. three years ago now, but I can't help but think this is just an engineer/nerd-led fantasy push by an entity that can get away with it.
That much money and that much access to smarts and networks can't help but quickly come up with something interesting.. and the competition that will soon ensue can only foster ever-quicker evolution of the eco-system.
This is the threshold moment — tech's pretty much all in place — and I sorely want to believe a tech angel's just swept in and as-near-as-can-guaranteed this shit's going to happen.
Fuck ten years - this is going to be huge in less than five.
- ukit20
I think it's already inevitable with Sony and others investing in similar technology (Sony reportedly has release date of early 2015 for their VR headset). In fact Oculus might have felt they didn't stand a chance unless they partnered with a big company.
- Oculus wanted 2015 as well, it will be easier now hopefullyernexbcn
- uuuuuu0
Google would be able to do more with it than anybody. FBs mantra has been "social experiences" for a while now so I guess that's what they are banking on, VR "social experiences".
New tech is all so depressing. Never mind how many people are being brainwashed and commercialized, I am just thinking about how nearsighted everyone will get with these headsets on.
- twokids0
Facebook is going to build 'The Street', from Snow Crash. Will be pretty awesome.
- ernexbcn0
@reanimate wow, dick move by ZeniMax, but I guess they are pissed since a lot of guys from id quit and followed Carmack to Oculus.
- sherm0
- and then ?BattleAxe
- Okay... you're doing it wrong!ETM
- I did it already. Its fucking awesome.sherm
- is that one of those cubicals americans work in? thought they were a joke from the matrix.fadein11
- I'd rather have to work in that one than what a cubicle is across the pond: https://www.google.c…ETM
- I was at a company once that moved me (and others) from a windowed office to a cubicle to save costs.ETM
- I thank them because it made me quite a few months later and start my own company.ETM
- sherm0
re: ^^^ I love this thing. I want moar. I may buy it. I wanna develop some content for it but I haven't had a chance to really dig into the developer content...
- ESKEMA0
what can you do with it at the moment? is there content already or is it just for development?
- sherm0
Its a dev kit so you can rock out with the SDK if you'd like. I didn't have enough time in 1 week w the unit in order to really dig deep but I tried a few demos, and I downloaded a go cart sim game to my mac pro turns out it was a game for PCs though.
I also got a chance to try out the samsung version in the office, * shameless plug * http://www.complex.com/pop-cultu…
While I didn't view the porn, I did view trailers in a theatre and visited Mongolia and listened to a girl tell a joke to her family which felt pretty damn real and immersive...
I figured it was mongolia because the inside of the house looked like the result of these house shapes...
https://www.google.com/search?q=…
- sherm0
Microsoft too? wtf