[Wobble73]

Worry not, no doubt there will be someone out there that will learn to hack it! 

[0rph3u5]

i really dont get why facebook is touching this.

on twitter someone smart said something smart: the idea of the Occulus Rift is escapism, the idea of Facebook is social interaction. They both don't mix.

VR has a number of possible applications that aren't escapism in a trict sense - e.g. it is used in psychological thearapy since the late 90s to simulate situations of intense stress for the patient while providing controlled envoirnment (for example to treat PTSD or phobias)
Another application is to enhance telepresence by poviding a better "display" for the output from the proxy..

OR is build around the attempt to produce a VR device ready for home use; its application for gaming has only been its strongest selling point but that is not the limit of the possible applications...

Just think of the possible evolution of facebook stalking OR will enable (cause we all know what Mark Zuckerberg is about)

[Rodo]

Ahh I love this, you know how it works...first you get ppl having VR meetings, then you get ppl posting something along the lines:

"Yep you know what happens when you eat too much enchilada, it's VR #taking a #dump #time!"
[VR tag]vid[/VR tag]

[Herra Tohtori]

My sentiments regarding this matter.

Oh well, I suppose I'll see how it goes and if there's any competition or alternatives. I have deep reservations about handing my money to Facebook, even if it's by proxy.

[Spoon]

"Please login to your Facebook account in order to begin the Oculus Rift installation process."

[Luis Dias]

"Please login to your Facebook account in order to begin the Oculus Rift installation process."

yeahno. count me out of this nightmare kthnksbye!

[Colonol Dekker]

Please allow Facebook to login to your etc etc what spoon said.




I don't want Farmville invites while I play half life etc 

[Black_Yoshi1230]

Anyone been on the Star Citizen forums? Some of them are just begging* Chris Roberts to drop OR support or at least provide his stance in his next developer announcement.

Meanwhile, while I'm waiting for the Downfall Rant to happen on it, I will just say I am going to be overtly cautious on this. As much as I would enjoy a sim experience with it (imagine if you could look into the Rift to look through a submarine periscope or through the Longbow Apache's ORT to see the TADS FLIR/DTV/DVO system in full screen, man, that would have made a killing), Facebook... ehhhhh....

* Yeah, I don't think begging would be the best word to describe it.

[Black Wolf]

Who knows, maybe they want to reinvent Second Life?

Everyone calm down. This is what Facebook have in mind, and this alone. The gaming potential for OR will not be touched - it's almost entirely peripheral to FB (Casual farmville players don't want a VR farm FFS), and it's far too difficult to insert content at that end, short of banner ads or something overlaid onto your game, which they know people would ditch by the millions, and they need millions of gamers to buy the OR and create the user base so that they can build on it. Product placement inserted into games at the developers end is far more efficient.

No, all Facebook are doing here is trying to be Google - they're spending up big investing in emerging technologies that only peripherally relevant to their core business. FB wants ground floor integration of social networking - specifically its own, of course - in what it thinks might be an emerging VR communication space. They missed the boat entirely on smartphones, and so instead they want Facebook to be the bedrock of the next generation of 3d Skype - your great aunt mildred projected as a 3d model into your lounge room. And, perhaps just as important, they want to lock out Google+ from integrating with it.

So sleep tight - us excited gamers are still important to FB. We're the thin end of the wedge who are going to start making headsets like this ubiquitous enough that FB can gradually make them profitable outside of gaming. They're not going to mess with that.

[Klaustrophobia]

"they are just trying to be like google" is in NO way reassuring.

[Rodo]

Watch it, google is reading us.
*posted with google chrome.

[Nuke]

i dont like software people doing hardware. when that happens you get locked down technology, because they are used to the licensing model and not the manufacturing model. "thanks for your money, here some hardware, its still ours so you are technically just borrowing it. at some point in the future we may come back and ask for more money, and if you dont comply the hardware will brick itself. if you use it in a way we dont like we will come and take it away from you. the license also requires you to bend over while i put this watermelon in your rectum, oh and by the way you have to pay for the watermelon."

[ssmit132]

I just hopped on Kotaku and found this article on the posts that Palmer Luckey made on Reddit:

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/03/oculus-addresses-some-of-the-internets-biggest-concerns/

[Enzo03]

It appears Michael Abrash is now in with Oculus VR: http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/03/28/oculus-rift-hires-valve-vr-expert-michael-abrash-as-chief-scientist/

[torc]

My 2 cents: Facebook made a great investiment in VR for good reasons, but i think the private development for the games integration will go on despite Oculus has been aquired.
So i'd not worry too much for this...intead i think it will push the VR market one step ahead,and this move shows that next gen games will be based on VR hardwares.

Palmer Luckey has been clear that Oculus will continue to develop...so let's try to see this as a good thing.
I'm pretty much positive regarding that.

[SypheDMar]

Holy ****, HLP. Facebook data mines enough to know that you guys don't want adware on your hardware. I wouldn't worry about anything unless they do something really insane. They are for-profit, after all.

[Enzo03]

And now John Carmack voices his support: http://kotaku.com/john-carmack-voices-support-of-facebooks-oculus-acquis-1554809291

[BloodEagle]

He doesn't support the move so much as accept it as not being harmful.

I wasn't personally involved in any of the negotiations -- I spent an afternoon talking technology with Mark Zuckerberg, and the next week I find out that he bought Oculus.

I found that little tidbit to be interesting.

[Klaustrophobia]

Holy ****, HLP. Facebook data mines enough to know that you guys don't want adware on your hardware. I wouldn't worry about anything unless they do something really insane. They are for-profit, after all.

when has knowing people don't want something EVER stopped facebook from doing it?

[Mika]

While I do like the idea of display goggle, I just can't fathom why they made it so large. Have actually been wondering about that for a while.