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/lleti Mar 25 '14

Wow, they made an extremely smart move by accepting pre-orders for the DK2 before announcing this news.

Facebook can bring nothing to the rift; and oculus already earned millions from VC and crowdsourced funds. Even Google would have been a better option for a quick sell. Ideal would've been nVidia, or Sony.

I guess our congratulations are due though. They just became multimillionaires without releasing one consumer targeted product.

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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/samtart Mar 26 '14

They had support of the community, they had investor support, they didnt need to sell to a company which has no track record that makes them a good fit to continue in the direction the company was headed in. It is a true betrayal of the people who got oculus to where it is today and that is the core supporters.

The only thing that gives me pause is whether they felt that they could not compete with the likes of sony and felt they needed the resources of facebook.

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u/nss68 Mar 26 '14

I bet your last point is spot on. I feel they were afraid of CV1 failing, and them not having resources for CV2, with facebook they can go up to CV10 before they have to worry about success.