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One of the articles in this thread even mentions it. Though they might've meant DK2 by "Oculus Rift starts shipping in july". Well, in that case, I'll go with DK2. Do you know if it's gonna be any cheaper on release?

Devkit 2 will be $350. As for consumer version, Palmer said that FB money allows them the greatly lower the price of the Rift. If I had to guess, consumer version  will be around  $250.

there is the possibility of having custom hardware made. such as made to spec screens or asics that would have not been possible without dropping a million or two on a run. having an asic made would be useful because you could greatly reduce the part count, and thus cost, by rolling all the functionality you need into one chip.

[Darklord42]

I think people are getting worked up over nothing (Notch too, but that is hardly new for him). It's purely a business deal.  Oculus gets the financial stability it needs to further development, and Facebook gets to further diversify its assets.  Which is what a healthy company is suppose to do (never put you eggs in one basket).  I'm sure the focus will always be gaming as this is the only practical use it is designed for and is the only market interested in buying.

[SypheDMar]

I think people are getting worked up over nothing (Notch too, but that is hardly new for him). It's purely a business deal.  Oculus gets the financial stability it needs to further development, and Facebook gets to further diversify its assets.  Which is what a healthy company is suppose to do (never put you eggs in one basket).  I'm sure the focus will always be gaming as this is the only practical use it is designed for and is the only market interested in buying.

Thank you for the sensical post.

HLP vocal minorities, stop panicking every time corporate giants do something.

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I think people are getting worked up over nothing (Notch too, but that is hardly new for him). It's purely a business deal.  Oculus gets the financial stability it needs to further development, and Facebook gets to further diversify its assets.  Which is what a healthy company is suppose to do (never put you eggs in one basket).  I'm sure the focus will always be gaming as this is the only practical use it is designed for and is the only market interested in buying.

Thank you for the sensical post.

HLP vocal minorities, stop panicking every time corporate giants do something.

PANIC!!!!!

What?

PANICCCC!!!!!!!