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Well, party's over. It was fun while it lasted.

I hope this piece of garbage tanks and these sellouts get what they deserve.

Everybody has a price in their mind. Exceeding that price line, they will do whatever you ask them to. Why wouldn't the Oculus VR sells out if they are offered billions of dollars?! If you are offered millions of dollars to sell out your creation / labels, I am sure you would do the same thing. So don't be so negative about their decisions.

They betrayed everyone who donated money to their cause, and are contributing power to the monster that is Facebook. I have absolutely no respect for this decision.

Yeah it is a classic example of selling out. I do hope they at least have the courtesy to refund those kickstarters money to the donors though. Aren't there some clause in the kickstarer's Terms of Use to prevent something like this? Have they delivered what they promised to the donors?

You realize they raised $2.4 million on Kickstarter, right? There's no way on earth they'll refund that much to that many people. I don't know about Kickstarter's ToS, either, but I presume they don't have to do anything.

It's pretty sad...but we'll see. Their latest headset, at $350, was a hell of a deal. If I actually had any games/applications that properly utilized it (or I were a dev) I would've dropped the dosh in a heartbeat.

I pray that this doesn't fundamentally disrupt the move into VR. I need my interactive Artificial Academy.

We were this close to the waifu age.

What bothers me is this

Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face, being spied on by your ex, having data about you constantly collected by us and sent straight to the NSA and any corporation that wants to buy it from us -- just by putting on goggles in your home."

Send the data straight to the NSA? Have your ExGF spy on you? Did he really just say this?

Sounds like satire to me LOL.

This post has been edited by KonradZuse on Mar 25 2014, 07:17 PM

Your sarcasm detector is just sensitive enough to catch a possible match, but not sensitive enough to flag it as the obvious sarcasm it is.

PROTIP: It's sarcasm. Recalibrate.

This post has been edited by Nomake Wan on Mar 25 2014, 07:34 PM

This is now the official theme song of the Oculus Rift Data Collector, brought to you by Facebook™.

Man, aren't you guys so hyped for VR Farmville?!

[ Post made via Mobile Device ]

I'm just going to sit back, grab some popcorn and watch as this turns out to be an April fools stunt.

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God that would be fucked up.

A PR stunt that has real manifestation on their market cap? I don't think so. Facebook's stock price dropped 1% after the news of the acquisition. The drop is equivalent to two billion dollars in market value.

Yeah, I don't think so.

A very expensive April Fool's joke it would be so I'm in agreement about it being legitimate, and saddening.

The Kickstarter investors are out their donations. This whole thing is just messed up.

What's the point for a social network to own a VR headset?
I hope the inventors of OR will regret their move, mainly because they sort of betrayed their investors.

VR Candy Crush Saga, you filty casual peasant. Do you even microtransactions?

Well... There goes any hopes of cool games for the Oculus Rift... I'm sure there will be games still made for it, but I doubt any of them will be as cool...

Zuckerberg is an ambitious boy. I hope some better company aquires the Rift after it becomes a huge failure.

And don't forget, some small company's (or bigger than we thought), bought some of the Rift before all this.
So if they could be more successful than fb, we could still get some interesting things to see.

Good news and bad news: BASED SONY SAVES VR. Bad news: the worst overcharging company next to Apple saves VR. Suck it, OculusBook.

I dont' think anyone is out any Backer money, all backers should be still getting their oculus Rifts.

Yes, there wasn't a kickstarter technically needed, but they did get funding needed to start out.


People think just because FB bought it that it's going to be bad.

Anyone can use the Oculus SDK and create their own games.

FB isn't in charge of everything, just the upgrades to the device itself.

That's not necessarily true. While that is true right now, the thing people are wondering at is whether FB will decide to lock the device down and exert licensing/ad/othernastythings requirements on its development. Oculus was originally independent and open. With a massive entity like FB taking it under its wing it's only natural to wonder how that will alter the fundamental belief system driving the device's continued development.

Perhaps nothing will happen and everything will continue as normal, albeit at a faster pace thanks to increased R&D funding.

Or perhaps FB will completely ruin it by attempting to control it.

We'll see.

Yeah, you're right,t hat it's possible FB will mess things up, but why would they take something and start charging for it and such? The SDK could have a monthly charge(like some software) but doubtful since I dont' see anythign with the cloud(bujt I'm not that familar with Oculus itself so who knows).

Well as it stands, their official stance on Oculus Rift is that they want to keep it on its current track but obviously push it along with more funding.

In addition they want to find alternative uses for it, such as media or social applications. Whether this additional focuses will impact the original vision needs to be seen.