Facebook Acquires Oculus, Oculus Rift Minecraft Cancelled

Facebook has acquired Oculus, paying a reported $2 billion for the virtual reality startup, which Forbes says is $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook stock, and the deal includes another potential $300 in incentives. "Mobile is the platform of today, and now we’re also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. "Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate." There's some immediate fallout from this as Markus "notch" Persson tweets (thanks nin via Joystiq) that this has ended the possibility of an Oculus version of Minecraft: "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out."
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John Carmack ‏@ID_AA_Carmack 2m

I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale.


That came off Carmack's Twitter. I guess he has hopes for an enormous online VR space.

Sounds cool, but who wants Facebook involved? Nobody.

The crappy dystopia where characters walked around in VR with a constant stream of ads in their face was supposed to be a warning, not a blueprint.

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