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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by holografix on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:32PM (#24067083)
Instagram is what it always was for Facebook: a clear sign of the decline of Facebook’s original product into irrelevance while it slowly mutates into infinite town square forums trapped in valley of echoing stupidity and a less anonymous craigslist/gumtree. The Instagram acquisition was the first clear sign Facebook never could innovate it could only steal and perfect existing ideas. Now they decided that outright copying is cheaper than buying, so they copy Snapchat and now TikTok.
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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by Panini_Jones on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:07PM (#24067269)
Facebook came out with the Oculus Quest last year which is hugely innovative.
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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by ClikeX on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:59AM (#24068980)
Apart from Quest being a standalone device, it was just an iteration on the original Rift. And it was another company they bought, and I'd be more inclined to give credits to the Occulus team than to Facebook.
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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by Panini_Jones on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:23PM (#24152485)
> Apart from Quest being a standalone device, it was just an iteration on the original Rift

In that it's a VR device, yes. But it's a standalone headset with Inside Out tracking. Many people didn't think this was possible.

> And it was another company they bought, and I'd be more inclined to give credits to the Occulus team than to Facebook.

A significant amount of FB employees developed this headset. It is Oculus is Facebook now.

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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by ngokevin on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:30PM (#24067352)
You could say that evolved out of the "buying" era as the above commenter said, as Oculus was an acquisition.
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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by Panini_Jones on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:24PM (#24152491)
Oculus Quest was developed by Facebook, not Oculus.
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Re:Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels by throwaway4715 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @10:50PM (#24067709)
This strategy has made Apple very successful
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