Facebook buys Oculus VR…
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- 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...
- sherm0
Microsoft too? wtf
- ernexbcn0
"For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week.I expect the FB deal will avoid several embarrassing scaling crisis for VR."
"I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale."
John Carmack, CTO of Oculus VR.
- ernexbcn0
Palmer Luckey answered questions on Reddit after the announcement:
- ukit20
Zuckerberg: "We're clearly not a hardware company. We're not gonna try to make a profit off of the devices long term. We view this as a software and services thing, where if we can make it so that this becomes a network where people can be communicating and buying things and virtual goods, and there might be advertising in the world, but we need to figure that out down the line."
- Sounds like they don't have it quite figured out yet.ukit2
- i_monk0
"and there might be advertising in the world"
And the pope might be Catholic.
- ESKEMA0
what can you do with it at the moment? is there content already or is it just for development?
- SigDesign0
So, wait... he bought it so they could sell stuff and put up ads?
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Zuckerberg: "We're clearly not a hardware company. We're not gonna try to make a profit off of the devices long term. We view this as a software and services thing, where if we can make it so that this becomes a network where people can be communicating and buying things and virtual goods, and there might be advertising in the world, but we need to figure that out down the line."