Oculus VR being bought by Facebook

[OneWay]

http://time.com/37842/facebook-oculus-rift/

Well there went that promising piece of hardware. :(

[sepulchrave]

Oculus VR is a great way to get sea sick while playing videogames.

They'll start using it to treat videogame addiction in a pavlovian way.

[Darkn3ss F4lls]

well ya know he's got 25 billion he's got to toss it somewhere lol buying up whats app, buying VR maybe he's going to make facebook glass lol

[AOD_Anima]

I still want to believe this is an early April Fool's joke. It's also kind of funny how quickly Notch dropped the idea of Minecraft for the Oculus.

It's a fun peripheral...hopefully it'll continue to keep growing and improving, even with this management change. :)

[Null0000]

Well, I guess I'm not buying that now. Luckily, Sony's Morpheus should also work on the PC, so I will be getting that instead. (Unless Valve decides to make one)

[Tzamen]

I still want to believe this is an early April Fool's joke. It's also kind of funny how quickly Notch dropped the idea of Minecraft for the Oculus.

It's a fun peripheral...hopefully it'll continue to keep growing and improving, even with this management change. :)

http://www.reddit.com/user/palmerluckey

Palmer looks very serious.

[CreaminFreeman]

They are allowing Oculus to operate independently of Facebook. From what I've read and deduced all they have done is invested a metric fuck-ton of money into the Rift project. I honestly see this as a good thing for Oculus. It'll give them the money they need to get things moving faster and get betting hardware. It's going to be a lot like Instagram. They were bought by facebook and operate independently. As far as I can see they haven't turned that into shit. Admittedly, I don't really use Instagram but my girlfriend does.