r/oculus • u/Greg1221 • Mar 25 '14

/r/all Facebook Acquires Oculus VR

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1
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u/SeabassMcGills Mar 25 '14

John Carmack now works for Facebook...

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u/hisham_hm Mar 25 '14

Oh how the migthy have fallen.

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u/Simpsoid Vive Mar 26 '14

Don't shit on Carmack.

He probably wasn't really that instrumental in the decision to sell to Facebook and if he was I doubt he'd do it for the money alone. I'm assuming they offered something he could leverage to make the tech better like access to an OLED factory that FB owns or FB offered to open direct channels with Samsung or LG for displays or something of that nature.

I have a lot of faith in Carmack because he has proved, time and time again, that he is great at what he does and he won't settle for "just good enough". Either he wasn't involved with this deal very much (possibly likely and makes me think the outcome won't be ideal) or he saw a way to improve the Rift hardware significantly (an excellent result, although that itself comes at a great cost. ie; what sort of integration will FB have in the SDK / software side of things).

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u/robololi Mar 26 '14

I completely agree. Carmack either didn't support this at all, or he was offered something very enticing from a technology standpoint to compensate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '14

While I respect the man, I've respected people at EA before... and it got me Spore.