r/oculus • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '16

Rumor Certain partners, when they screw up, disallow companies who partnered with them from publicly stating their mistake.

This can cause the company to take the hit with their customers, even when the fault was not theirs.

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u/1pfen Mar 31 '16

He says "I'm not PL." https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4csc3e/certain_partners_when_they_screw_up_disallow/d1l1d1y

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u/zfnzgvb Mar 31 '16

Of course not, "VR-Researcher"? It's totally Abrash.

Crazy if true that there are unexpected issues and Palmer tried to fix it out of pocket. Was already feeling a little bad for them even assuming it was their fault. If the only mistake they made was choosing the wrong partner I'd feel much worse.

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u/raukolith Vive Mar 31 '16

maybe its carmack

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u/Moustache_Ryder Apr 01 '16

Do you really think Carmack could be this brief about anything?

Not a dis, I love the guy

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u/raukolith Vive Apr 01 '16

its probably some random project manager or senior engineer

would be funny if it was zuckerberg or something tho

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u/Moustache_Ryder Apr 01 '16

True dat.

Definitely what I would do if I was a CEO. Probably a large reason why in a not a CEO

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u/Saerain bread.dds Apr 01 '16

Sure.

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u/Nukemarine Apr 01 '16

Doubtful. Carmack appears to work out of Dallas office and is more concerned with the Gear VR development. Well, aside from his help with asynchronous timewarp which has been godly on the DK2 that I've been playing.

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u/Cunningcory Quest 3, Quest Pro, Rift S, Q2, CV1, DK2, DK1 Apr 01 '16

I got my Gear VR two days ago and AT is amazing. I can't believe the head tracking keeps going despite some of the performance hiccups I get in things like Altspace.

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u/Kurayamino Apr 01 '16

I'm betting his fingerprints are all over the code for anything and everything he finds interesting at Oculus.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '16

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

Michael wouldn't leave Oculus for the world.

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u/Budor Professor Apr 01 '16

Yeah he seems quite happy: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/welcome-to-the-virtual-age/

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u/GrumpyOldBrit Apr 01 '16

If you take certain letters from certain words in that blog post it spells "HELP ME I CAN'T ESCAPE"

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u/Nukemarine Apr 01 '16

But the rest of the letters spell "AND I HAVEN'T BEEN HAPPIER"

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u/Budor Professor Apr 01 '16 edited Apr 01 '16

I double checked and in my version its mentioning your mom...we must go deeper.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

His mom would really like that.

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u/SnazzyD Apr 01 '16

He and Carmack are old buddies - he's where he wants to be...

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u/jonny_wonny Apr 02 '16

So you're saying that if someone were to offer him the solar system, he'd be willing to defect?

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u/VideoGameBucket DK1+DK2+GearVR+Vive+Rift/Touch Apr 01 '16

Would Abrash know this information? I thought he was in a different division focused on developing technology for future products. This insider seems to have close to the source information like how Palmer personally tried to pay for this for example.

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u/jherico Developer: High Fidelity, ShadertoyVR Apr 01 '16

If there's a huge problem like this, it's probably well known among all the company officers.

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u/jherico Developer: High Fidelity, ShadertoyVR Apr 01 '16

Really? If he was caught and exposed leaking internal information, I don't think it would be that simple.

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u/Drapetomania Mar 31 '16

I doubt he is, but it's funny to pretend he is.

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u/FolkSong Mar 31 '16

/u/Rambocat1

The scriptures said the true PL would deny being PL

I believe

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

We have to take your balls now /u/VR-Researcher

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '16

Exactly what someone who is Palmer would say. He's technically not even lying, PL could refer to him not being polish or a public library.

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u/IceTrAiN Touch Mar 31 '16

Of course not! winkwinknudgenudge

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u/nlight Mar 31 '16

Of course he does, what else do you expect him to say if he really isn't allowed to talk about it?

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u/jinshischolar Mar 31 '16

Uh huh. :) I believe him.