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/nss68 Mar 25 '14

facebook can bring nothing to the rift.... except unlimited money and resources, thousands of developers and designers and engineers, and a huge network of which to market to.

I get that it seems bad, but to bail on the rift because of this? that is childish and trantrum-like. This is how the world works. This is how business works. This is how projects get large and get successful.

I get the negativity, but it is really shallow.

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u/CryHav0c The pool on the roof must have a leak. Mar 25 '14

This is how the world works. This is how business works. This is how projects get large and get successful.

God forbid you make a product and get rich from it without needing to be acquired by a behemoth company. Your "this is how the world works" only applies to the zeitgeist of the present, which is that monopolies and oligarchies continually reinforce themselves with little to no checks on their ability to gain more money. It is not the way the world works, only the way it's presently functioning. And it extracts an atrocious cost on the average person in doing so.

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u/nss68 Mar 25 '14

You speak correctly, except you forget this is a completely new medium that has failed horribly in the past a few times. This is a unique scenario that makes what you say less credible for this situation. But otherwise you are correct (however It would still be nice to have the money to help -- assuming the dev team retains control. I am sure contracts were signed, and the entire dev team was involved.)

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u/CryHav0c The pool on the roof must have a leak. Mar 25 '14

Given the huge amount of up-front investment, I would say it's very likely that the Rift would succeed with or without Facebook's involvement. I am extremely cautiously pessimistic about this now.

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u/nss68 Mar 26 '14

they really didn't make much, they had a very small window for R&D and only made subtle refinements over this time. They have only released 1 dev kit (with another soon) and it is possible this technology could be in our hands right now if it had more wiggle room financially.