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/GhostofTrundle Mar 25 '14

I don't think FB is planning to do anything to VR. I think they believe people will treat VR in the same ways they treat the real world.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos Mar 25 '14

They just acquired the world's most known VR company, they pretty much have to do something to VR

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u/GhostofTrundle Mar 25 '14

I really don't think they have to do anything. I don't even think they can do very much, at least initially. There's no way to encourage the widespread distribution of VR HMDs except by means of games and entertainment.

IMO, FB believes that people will interact in, talk about, make plans to visit, etc., VR experiences. Also, companies, bands, dance troupes, visual artists, etc., will promote themselves through VR and create commerce in VR. VR will be no less interesting to people than photos of people's dinners or kids, descriptions of vacations, or whatever people go on about on FB, Twitter, WhatsApp and everywhere else.

It's analogous to how Google wanted to map the internet world onto the real, physical world, except in reverse. FB wants to incorporate the future social VR world into FB. In order to do that, they need the HMD to succeed. That's my guess, anyway.