Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by randomsearch on Sunday October 25, 2020 @05:16AM (#24884914)

VR is one of the few existential threats to Facebook’s dominance. Connecting with people is an obvious killer app of VR. That’s why Facebook bought Oculus.

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Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by taneq on Sunday October 25, 2020 @06:50AM (#24885319)

This. Facebook bought Oculus for the same reason Google developed Android: As a response to a new platform that threatened to bypass their monopolies and render them redundant.

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Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by seg_lol on Friday October 30, 2020 @09:34AM (#24942003)

If antitrust law was effective, it would prevent this kind of anti-competitive behavior.

How exactly, I'll leave that for the experts.

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Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by KaiserPro on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:52PM (#24888292)

its really not. The existential threat is that they don't operate their own platform.

VR isn't their end goal, AR is. The big bet is that AR will replace mobile phones. Owning the platform means profit from device sales and 30% cut of all apps sold. Thats the end game.

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