Facebook to buy Occulus Rift :/

Boomstick777 · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:38

Why? Farmville in VR?

Status updates in VR..

:confused:

Although I can see the potential for some VR encounters with some of my hotter Facebook friends... Hmm..

-BA- · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:39

Will bring a new dimension to Farmville, literally

Scougar · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:39

Wonderful... now I can get all those Candy Crush Saga notifications when I'm in VR.... just what I always wanted.

rare · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:42

2 billion.

Wow.

Ja5peruk · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:48

cheesyboy said:
Go **** yourselves facebook

I am much less enthusiastic about OR now.

How disappointing

+1

OhEsEcks · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:54

Didn't someone from Valve's VR department / experiment recently go over to Oculus as well?

Edit: Yup. Atman Binstock.

Kishywish · 25 Mar 2014 at 22:58

2 thousand million dollars. That's not bad for a product that doesn't even have an official release date.

OhEsEcks · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:00

Kishywish said:
2 thousand million dollars. That's not bad for a product that doesn't even have an official release date.

Would have been nice if during crowd funding they'd offered shares in the company to donors. Quite a few people would have been made very rich today.

MrMarvelous · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:10

And this is where all my interest in Oculus Rift died.

~>Dg<~ · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:13

Lysander said:
Something to do with glasses, no doubt, in competition with Google. Soon we won't even have to have computer monitors.

why type to your friends when you can pop on glasses see them and interact with them. thats why. gaming------------- out window.

facebook just went future.

spookywillow · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:16

No longer on facebook but in it,

Can see it being like PSN Home but facebookworld

Avenged7Fold · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:19

If steam had the cash to invest, it would have been a really cool gimmick to advertise the steambox with. Not sure what facebook are going to do with this, cant help but feel this exciting product will be somewhat wasted, not that i ever really wanted one for more than just for the sake of trying it out.

Grandmaster Fap! · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:27

Surely that means OR is dead to hardcore gamers and will be just used for the million twee casual games on FB or VR stalking people who dont fancy you? Unless they license this out to games developers.....about to get an epic kill in Crysis 4 when..."Hello, its been a while since youve visited Facebook, your friends miss you..."

FUUUU!!!

mattyfez · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:28

This is a sad day for the human race.

Klo · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:31

Avenged7Fold said:
If steam had the cash to invest, it would have been a really cool gimmick to advertise the steambox with. Not sure what facebook are going to do with this, cant help but feel this exciting product will be somewhat wasted, not that i ever really wanted one for more than just for the sake of trying it out.

Valve is very rich, but I'm not sure they are rich enough just to splash out 2 billion.

Lethagized · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:36

Great. I'm already going to feel like a nob when i fit the occulus rift on my head, but now facebook is going to announce this along with pictures with close ups of my eyeballs

JBod · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:40

I was very close to ordering the DK2, now I don't think I will.

I wasn't looking forward to the Sony PS4 ONLY VR headset as I game on my PC.

itchy · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:50

I am truly gutted, I thought this was a great advancement in gaming by people who loved games, obviously not!

Just money whores as usual. :mad:

nutsnut · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:50

All depends on how this is managed. If Palmer luckey and his team can continue the development and contact building without any meddling from Facebook then the buyout and money may see the consumer version hitting the market earlier

randal · 25 Mar 2014 at 23:50

How disappointing, die FB. Just die.