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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Mar 26, 2014, 15:43
Re: Facebook Acquires Oculus, Oculus Rift Minecraft Cancelled Mar 26, 2014, 15:43
Mar 26, 2014, 15:43
 
It seems OR doesn't hold any patents. A person called this about a year ago about OR...

"With no patent and a seemingly simple design (or so it seems from the teardowns I've watched), I could quite easily imagine a big company to swoop in."

It is underhanded what has happened with the Kickstarters. I was wondering where is the product. Seems for a while they new they existed to be bought out.

This isn't what VR needed. This is egg on the face. It needed a great product, great support at a great price. No hiccups in the hype machine. Because you mess this up and it's see you in 10-20 years for attempt 3 or 4. His lip service to us was spot on, but now you can't help but think what happened was the plan all along.

This comment was edited on Mar 26, 2014, 15:54.
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