Facebook acquires Oculus VR

Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR by pinaceae on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @07:03PM (#7469941)

right, that's why pure software companies now need to get into hardware, just like, erm, who exactly? do they want to be the next apple?

hardware is such a different skill and mindset than software, it's not even funny.

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Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR by jusben1369 on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @08:21PM (#7470478)

I don't understand your point. Were you railing on Google when they bought Nest?

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Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR by pinaceae on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @09:32PM (#7470895)

I said: "well, stick in a fork in Nest then." Does that count? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7053838

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Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR by jusben1369 on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @12:00PM (#7474282)

Yes! As long as you're consistent.

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Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR by infinitone on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @09:33PM (#7470901)

I think its about the fact that very few software companies can simply birth a hardware engineering division like Google. Its arguable that even Google struggles with it at times.

For a software-oriented company such as Facebook and a fairly new one and not the greatest on the balance sheet, its undoubtedly much harder for them to enter the hardware space than Google.

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