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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by Blahah on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:15PM (#7469568)
> If you had to pick a tech company to leverage your disruptive new consumer technology, and make sure it kept the 'awesome', and was hacker friendly, who would you go to?

google

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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by prawn on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:27PM (#7469684)
I expected Microsoft to grab them and I'm surprised they didn't. Would've made a smart fit with Xbox and given them easy ways to directly integrate it with their OSs. Would work well with gaming, education, eventually business, mobile and so on. $2b a few months ago would've been a small price to pay to get in early on this, unless they have something comparable up their sleeves from the research division.
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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by presty on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @07:33PM (#7470139)
Well, Don Mattrick left last year and Marc Whitten's leaving/just left, so I don't really find it surprising.
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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by vessenes on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:17PM (#7469596)
Yep, those would be the two companies you'd have bidding. Except, Carmack is too heavy metal to go to Google. I only partly jest.
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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by kposehn on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:38PM (#7469755)
Carmack is definitely too heavy metal for google :)
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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by fernandotakai on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @10:46PM (#7471232)
tbh, of all companies, i would never say "carmack is going to facebook".
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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by aviraldg on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @07:17PM (#7470034)
Valve or Google definitely. Valve because of the gaming expertise, Google for the existing experience and culture of innovation.
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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by Florin_Andrei on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:42PM (#7470613)
> Google for the existing experience and culture of innovation

Perfect contrast with Facebook.

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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by barbs on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @07:15PM (#7470023)
Valve
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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by relampago on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @07:38PM (#7470170)
Nintendo
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Re:Oculus Joins Facebook by vicbrooker on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:19PM (#7469613)
amazon?
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