Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it

Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by bobbles on Monday May 05, 2014 @06:37PM (#7701737)

I was one of the people disappointed with the acquisition.. but to be honest as long as they put out a decent bit of kit and I actually get to experience VR the way they're demoing it I'll be one happy dude

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by AJ007 on Monday May 05, 2014 @08:13PM (#7702138)

I thought it was an early April Fool's joke.

Cisco bought Flip for $590 million in 2009. By 2011 it was toast. While visionary for a moment, it wasn't perceptive enough to the impact of the smartphone.

There is a case to be made that Oculus needs large amounts of capital to procure the manufacture of a huge volumes of headsets. Unless explicit guarantees were part of the sale, Facebook could allocate the capital to something else. They are a public company and the bottom line is their companies performance, not the success or failure of Oculus.

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by joeevans1000 on Monday May 05, 2014 @10:26PM (#7702557)

Now there's talk of Carmack's previous employer alleging IP theft.

Hmmm... maybe that's why they scurried under the FB rock.

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by rhizome on Monday May 05, 2014 @06:48PM (#7701790)

Looking forward to the Facebook App Store launch. What do you think its name will be?

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by agildehaus on Monday May 05, 2014 @08:51PM (#7702276)

Facebook Alternative Reality Trove

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by boomzilla on Monday May 05, 2014 @08:15PM (#7702141)

Facebook Virtual Reality Platform with Realtime Social Communication for Facebook Certified Users (TM)

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by tormeh on Monday May 05, 2014 @08:36PM (#7702214)

Nono, this isn't Microsoft. It'll be something like Facebook Matrix Feed.

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by swasheck on Monday May 05, 2014 @09:19PM (#7702375)

If it was Microsoft, it'd have to go through multiple rebrands before landing on something like Oculus 3.

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by DougWebb on Monday May 05, 2014 @09:40PM (#7702425)

Oculus 2014, which would be released beta-quality in 2015 and usable-quality in 2016 as Oculus 2014 SP1.

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by joeevans1000 on Monday May 05, 2014 @10:31PM (#7702571)

Ad Hut.

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Re:Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big develop... by aniro on Monday May 05, 2014 @10:31PM (#7702568)

apps for facebox

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