Carmack left iD because they wouldn't let him work on the sort of stuff he wanted to work on. I see no reason he'd stick around Faceulus as an acquihire; if he's working at Facebook in the future, it's because they're letting Oculus do what it was doing when Facebook bought it.
Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR
by wavefunction on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:02PM
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Contracts can be broken. I really doubt John Carmack has to do anything he doesn't want to do. It will be the canary in the coalmine as far as whether I purchase an Oculus HMD when they release.
I do hate this "winner-take-all" situation where a few tech companies in the US acquire every single cutting edge company.
An effective FTC and more widespread use of the Sherman act would be nice in the US.
Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR
by stefan_kendall3 on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @08:06AM
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This would destroy most of the business models of most of the companies on this website.
I fail to see how a social media company buying a headset manufacturer would even hint at anti-trust.
> if he's working at Facebook in the future
... beyond what's required by contract
>Facebook is the only competitor to Google at this point
I wouldn't discount some of the recent moves my Microsoft and its new CEO -- they seem like they're moving fast and trying to become the old MSFT we used to love (or at least I used to.)
Never count Bing out of the fight =)
As far as I'm concerned Facebook is the only competitor to Google at this point. Facebook is just trying to keep pace. I assume they're going to do many awesome things in the near future that aren't necessarily aligned with their current business model in order to keep up that pace.