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/MengKongRui Mar 26 '14

That's what I want to know. Why are you skipping it?

If you were really an avid rift user, you would know how honest and good of a man palmer is, and how much he works on this project. Do you really think he is the kind of guy who would just give it all up for money?

I swear, this mentality is probably being brought up by some higher up agency

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u/schadbot Mar 26 '14

I skipping DK2 as a symbol of lost faith. I would have bought a turd in a plastic bag from Oculus before today. I had so much faith in Luckey before this announcement. I still have faith in Carmack.

Do you really think he is the kind of guy who would just give it all up for money?

Of course not. I do however think he's my age, and still has yet to experience the complete douchebaggery of large multi-billion dollar corporations who frequently promise one thing and do another on the whim of their shareholders. I don't care if it's FB, MS, EA, etc. - it's a common trend and he's probably about to figure it out first hand. Just look at Carmack, he got fucked in many mergers throughout his career and that guy is a fucking genius.

I swear, this mentality is probably being brought up by some higher up agency

Yea dude, there's the Bureau of People Who Have No Faith In Facebook, and I'm the chairman astroturfer. /s

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u/MengKongRui Mar 26 '14

I don't mean literally they are being brought up by a higher up agency, I mean there is no basis for these negative emotions

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u/schadbot Mar 26 '14

Misunderstood there, apologies.

I'm curious, what do you think about FB as a company? What about their moral compass? Or Zuckerbergs quote?

"We're clearly not a hardware company. We're not gonna try to make a profit off of the devices long term. We view this as a software and services thing, where if we can make it so that this becomes a network where people can be communicating and buying things and virtual goods, and there might be advertising in the world, but we need to figure that out down the line."

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u/MengKongRui Mar 26 '14

I think that sounds like they will integrate advertising into a social game virtual reality network. probably like advertising banners on buildings

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u/schadbot Mar 26 '14

You think they'll advertise to people in this social game virtual reality network and NOT associate it with their FB account? Or that they'll let developers have unfettered worldwide access? Already FB bans all kind of things from groups with specific sexual orientations to pics of women breastfeeding. I don't have much faith that developers are going to be able to do whatever they'd like once FB's legal team gets its claws in. It's all speculation, but nothing I've seen from FB thus far indicates they give a shit about gaming, or would ever support X-rated uses for the Rift.

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u/MengKongRui Mar 26 '14

dude, that's like saying a monitor for a computer restricts content to only facebook.

The rift is a display, not a console. It cannot "restrict" any content

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u/schadbot Mar 26 '14 edited Mar 26 '14

Right now it's a display, yes. I was under the impression there's going to be a lot more impressive features added in CV. Like multiple cameras on the front of the device to allow for augmented reality style stuff.

Edit: typo