Facebook Acquires Oculus, Oculus Rift Minecraft Cancelled [Mar 25, 2014, 7:28 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
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."
Fair points, Scheherazade. I don't really know what he means by peripheral versus dedicated system, I certainly want it to remain open to all but if they decide that integrating sound is better than us using our own headphones, I would expect them to have their reasons and hear them out, no pun intended.
This is looking longer term than I was, which I've stated in the past but should have made clear in the post you quoted. The future of Oculus was always up in the air and I thought this was inevitable at some point - I'm just surprised by who (not a hardware company) and when (no products released).
With that in mind, I've always been looking at the Oculus Rift in the fairly short term (the next 5 years) and what it leads to with VR in general in the longer term. Whether the Rift would have been relevant in 5 or 10 years was never a big concern personally. Their grass roots were all very lovely and I still wish them well but they've sold my goodwill and any bit of brand loyalty I may have had.
This takeover has accelerated my feeling that the Rift will lose relevance (now more like 2 or 3 years). If they close it off, if they include headphones so they can justify charging more rather than for virtual presence reasons, if they make you sign into Facebook, etc, I will replacing my ageing Oculus Rift CV1 with someone else's VR headset. I just want Facebook to not screw this up until they get a consumer version or two released.
I wouldn't expect Sony to be particularly open with their system either but I could see someone like Razer or Logitech jumping in with 2 feet and catering to the enthusiast market.
He's not wrong. I don't expect Notch cares much but IMHO Notch does look a bit childish here.
This is looking longer term than I was, which I've stated in the past but should have made clear in the post you quoted. The future of Oculus was always up in the air and I thought this was inevitable at some point - I'm just surprised by who (not a hardware company) and when (no products released).
With that in mind, I've always been looking at the Oculus Rift in the fairly short term (the next 5 years) and what it leads to with VR in general in the longer term. Whether the Rift would have been relevant in 5 or 10 years was never a big concern personally. Their grass roots were all very lovely and I still wish them well but they've sold my goodwill and any bit of brand loyalty I may have had.
This takeover has accelerated my feeling that the Rift will lose relevance (now more like 2 or 3 years). If they close it off, if they include headphones so they can justify charging more rather than for virtual presence reasons, if they make you sign into Facebook, etc, I will replacing my ageing Oculus Rift CV1 with someone else's VR headset. I just want Facebook to not screw this up until they get a consumer version or two released.
I wouldn't expect Sony to be particularly open with their system either but I could see someone like Razer or Logitech jumping in with 2 feet and catering to the enthusiast market.
Creston wrote on Mar 27, 2014, 11:54:
Yes, cliffyb, I'm sure Notch is EXTREMELY worried about what your irrelevant ass thinks of him.
He's not wrong. I don't expect Notch cares much but IMHO Notch does look a bit childish here.
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