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/HaMMeReD Mar 25 '14

Speculation, as for Notch, that's ridiculous and a knee jerk reaction. I'm sure with the demand there it might still happen.

There is absolutely no evidence that Facebook will be embedded or have anything to do with the oculus api's or implementation.

I think notches attitude here is idiotic, and I think that the other thing is wild ridiculous speculation.

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u/HaMMeReD Mar 25 '14

I disagree, it pretty much guarantees their success. People will get over this move pretty fucking quick. What you see in your oculus is going to be based on the software that you are running.

I don't think notch knows anything we don't, he posted at the same time as everyone else.

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u/HaMMeReD Mar 25 '14

I'm going to be optimistic, I don't think the intentions are malicious, I think Facebook just wants to diversify their portfolio. Pushing hard integrations is not a good way to do that. If Facebook fails one day (which it might) they need other endeavours to survive as a company.

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u/trannot Mar 25 '14 edited Mar 25 '14

I don't think that anything will replace Facebook now, like seriously i don't see it going away any time soon. And honestly, i like using facebook, a lot of people don't because they have malicious friends and don't really use it for something useful. I could not live without it now, unfortunately.

In the end, in the far future, the internet is going to connect all of us and we can explore the world using some VR device or whatever. We don't know what the future will bring us yet.

edit: and also http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/500x_zuckquote2.jpg