Re:Facebook acquires Oculus VR
by cwyers on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @07:30PM
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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.
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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.