Facebook Buys Oculus Rift For $2 Billion

[gokujr1000]

This could either go two ways:

1) Nothing will change

2) FB will run it into the ground

For the sake of people jumping to conclusions I'm just going to go with FB will run it into the ground

 

[Hells Malice]

That's interesting.

If they do as they have said and NOT interfere with the gaming portion of the Rift, and instead help it, then I can see this only as stellar news.

However one false move and they've probably doomed the poor device.


I have to say though that the amount of stupid, uninformed posts in this thread is both hilarious, and sad. It's even sadder that you could simply read the very information within this thread, and probably dissuade most of the stupidity.

 

[Zerousen]

RIP Oculus Rift

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

Everyone needs to update the facebook games they play...

It's now "Dragon City" that everyone is getting hooked on.

Not sure what it is about but since I just last week discovered that Candy Crush is just a skinned up version of Bejeweled I am sure I will live just fine in my ignorance lol

I too cannot wait to be spammed with people requesting weird ass crap in 3D!!!

"Your Friend needs energy for his orgasmotron sign up to play rampaging hemorrhoid raiders to send him some energy!!!"

*has a perplexed look and quietly presses the unfriend button*

 

[Bladexdsl]

Mobile is the platform of today

yeah FREE games FULL of micro transactions and PAY to PLAY BS are really the future.

KEEP DREAMING RETARD!!

all the face-tards gonna love this now they can bitch about and backstab each other on their pages

IN 3D!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gahars]

yeah FREE games FULL of micro transactions and PAY to PLAY BS are really the future.

KEEP DREAMING RETARD!!

all the face-tards gonna love this now they can bitch about and backstab each other on their pages

IN 3D!!!!!!!!!!!

If that's how you're going to post... well, you know, pot, kettle, etc.

 

[jonthedit]

Are you kidding me? I was so looking forward to the Oculus but it seems we're fucked now.
Oculus Facebook Edition = Shit + Spyware + NSAWare

 

[vayanui8]

Fuck facebook. Why can't they just leave innovative ideas alone. Now the rift is sure to be overrun by a crapton of account shit and social integration

 

[KiingZero]

There's always that PS4 VR headset that's coming.

 

[jonthedit]

There's always that PS4 VR headset that's coming.

With social integration to compete with the Rift's social integration features!

 

[Veho]

Finally we will have FarmVille in full VR

 

[shakirmoledina]

I dont understand why there is so much hate. What possibly indicates that facebook buys companies that begin to fail?

I haven't seen Whatsapp or Instagram die.

I bet this will gain even more momentum because currently I haven't seen this being applied into the majority of the gaming market or any other audience for that matter.

 

[chartube12]

Minecraft creator dropped development for the Oculus Rift because of this..."because I find facebook creepy" his words.

 

[Kwartel]

I dont understand why there is so much hate. What possibly indicates that facebook buys companies that begin to fail?

I haven't seen Whatsapp or Instagram die.

I bet this will gain even more momentum because currently I haven't seen this being applied into the majority of the gaming market or any other audience for that matter.

We don't think that it will fail. Most people don't really feel like Facebook needs to be able to get so much info about someone. I migrated from WhatsApp as much as possible for the sole reason that I don't trust them.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Well I did not see that one coming.

Nor did I, and there could well be hints of irony in that, given what it is they do.

 

[Coto]

Are you kidding me? I was so looking forward to the Oculus but it seems we're fucked now.
Oculus Facebook Edition = Shit + Spyware + NSAWare

NSAWare, you sir, have created a brilliant word

 

[Sheimi]

Watch, it will scan your eyes and mine information from your mind.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Watch, it will scan your eyes and mine information from your mind.

It even happened to your avatar.

 

[Hells Malice]

I dont understand why there is so much hate. What possibly indicates that facebook buys companies that begin to fail?

People are assuming Facebook will be the reason it fails.
People seem to be too stupid to realize that Oculus Rift is just a highly advanced monitor strapped to your face. The idea that it can be bloated with spyware or facebook integration is just an absolute joke.
But hey it wouldn't be GBAtemp if people didn't blindly spout nonsense at the sight of keywords, regardless of what the actual news consists of.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

People are assuming Facebook will be the reason it fails.
People seem to be too stupid to realize that Oculus Rift is just a highly advanced monitor strapped to your face. The idea that it can be bloated with spyware or facebook integration is just an absolute joke.
But hey it wouldn't be GBAtemp if people didn't blindly spout nonsense at the sight of keywords, regardless of what the actual news consists of.

This so much.

And people don't even read the source/info previously posted, either. It's been said again and again that Facebook will take absolutely no part in the development of the Rift, that they'll be working on applications and other shit instead of the actual hardware but nooooo people are goddamn retarded