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Re:Oculus Rift by Rockdtben on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:55PM (#9701554)
Going to a page and the first thing I see is someone with their mouth gaping open and looking up. Horrible design.
Re:Oculus Rift by aaron-lebo on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:02PM (#9701607)
That was my immediate thought as well. Their choice of a scruffy looking guy (nothing wrong with it in and of itself) says a lot about their intended audience.

Hard to imagine Apple or Google marketing a product with that kind of imaging.

Re:Oculus Rift by robertfw on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:23PM (#9701735)
As a "scruffy looking guy", what does it tell you? I'm curious what you are able to glean about me and other "scruffies" by virtue of our facial hair
Re:Oculus Rift by aaron-lebo on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:58PM (#9701957)
I don't have any problems with you being scruffy looking :), I'm just saying a lot of people do have a reaction to it, which is why most companies go out of their way to use clean cut people.

It's not personal, just an observation.

Re:Oculus Rift by erroneousfunk on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:27PM (#9701757)
But they have the back of a lady's head at the end! You know, for balance and stuff.
Re:Oculus Rift by ionised on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:45AM (#9704858)
He just has a short beard. What's the problem?
Re:Oculus Rift by darkstar999 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:22PM (#9701730)
The second model is also a scruffy beardy man. Hmm.
Re:Oculus Rift by mortenjorck on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:05PM (#9701626)
Opening the page at work, it triggered my scroll-down reflex.

Maybe it's just my memories of 90s predictions of VR pornography, but the image does feel off-puttingly suggestive.

Re:Oculus Rift by th0br0 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:58PM (#9701572)
I'm guessing you're supposed to associate "Aaah" and "Oh" as in Oh-culus, but I agree: that's a terrible filler for your first product page.
Re:Oculus Rift by smacktoward on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:53PM (#9702357)
"We call that the 'O' face. You know, for 'Oculus.'"
Re:Oculus Rift by Alupis on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:59PM (#9701579)
And it's supposed to be intuitive the black oval in the top left is somehow the "Home" button?
Re:Oculus Rift by sp332 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:15PM (#9701691)
At least they blacked-out the inside of his nose. Ew.
Re:Oculus Rift by platz on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:15PM (#9701690)
open mouths w/ the rift already appears to be a meme:

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/20bqyw/mouths_close_...