I’m already having this conversation, so fuck it. I ain’t typing it again.
Thanks for ignoring me on steam tho. 
If you read Mark’s post, he says the two companies will stay separate, but Facebook will leverage Oculus’ tech for their own use, as far as I understand.
I’m not at my computer with steam on it :c
h/o
People are overreacting madly over this.
I don’t believe Facebook will take over the Oculus Rift design and operation. I think what was planned before will still happen, just with more money and resources. Oh, and Facebook has nothing to do with Zynga and King games.
Well shit.
Now I have privacy concerns about the final version of the Oculus. I don’t want it connected to my Facebook account or a companies’ data mining systems, but with FB in control, that’s a definite possibility, if only a small one…
I was planning on getting one when the consumer version was ready, but depending on how things go, that might have to change.
Honestly that is all that really needs to be said. This is a good thing for gamers and the Occulus but everyone is just going with their kneejerk reaction (I thought this was bad to until I read up on it and thought about it).
Notch cancels Official Minecraft Oculus Support
Is it just me or does this kind of make Notch look like an asshole?
EDIT: read the update where Presson explains why they backed out. Sounds more reasonable than Notch’s shitty post, but all the same the argument is full of holes and sounds more like prejudice than business/development. He complains that he won’t work with Oculus because Facebook isn’t stable enough to rely on and trust, citing games made on Facebook’s platform that got screwed when the platform changed. But that doesn’t make much sense given A) Oculus is still going to operate relatively independently on gaming within Facebook and B) Oculus is a piece of hardware, not a social or media platform, as such it doesn’t shift nearly as much and doesn’t leave you without backup options when it does.
Also I don’t believe in people whining about getting data mined. I hate to break it to you, but it really really doesn’t matter. In fact it helps you, because a lot of the big free services couldn’t survive without data mining. So which do you want, data mining and advertising, or monthly subscription fees?
You still trust anything facebook says? Oh don’t worry we aren’t datamining, we aren’t feeding NSA, we aren’t… Fuck that.
I really don’t care if they’re data mining or not. In fact I like that they are because that’s what makes free services like Facebook profitable.
Not to mention they really have no motivation to cripple Oculus gaming after saying they’re going to let the people at Oculus do their thing. Honestly that’s nothing but profit for them, I see absolutely no reason not to trust them on it. But even on top of all that, what would they even do to stop Oculus as a successful gaming peripheral? Just about any change to the hardware that would benefit social uses would also at the very least have no effect on gaming. And beyond the hardware itself I don’t think they’ll have too much of an effect, if not positive, on how the hardware gets used.
It’s like refusing to buy a rake from a company that has nefarious practices related to the privacy of the members in their shovel club. It’s pretty much not relevant at all, even if they want to add rake users to their shovel club and turn it into a joint rake and shovel club.
plz climb down off off the nuts of the worlds billionaires guy
For what is worth, if the Oculus Rift really ends up being a commercial success then we can expect equivalent alternatives to pop up fast, bringing about a selection of Facebook-less VR peripherals.
not if facebook get a bunch of patents on this shit in the bargain lol
The warp effect is a visual trick they use. The screen image is warped so that the area at the center of the screen is expanded. The lens between the screen and your eye then warps the image back to normal proportions. The net effect is that the center of the image - where your eyes are likely to be focused - has a higher pixel density than the outer edges of the image.
Re Facebook: This just appeared on my Facebook feed. I swear to you I did not doctor it.
Facebook is a shit company and Fuckerberg is an asshole. That has no bearing on whether or not the Oculus buyout is a good thing.
FB just cheeki breeki’d our asses
that’s it, VR is over
everybody go home
Meh. I’ll still buy it.
Carmack now works for Facebook…