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Watching LP Oculus videos is great fun. I'd love for the technology to be more widely available and used. Facebook are eh but if it means the idea gets a much needed boost then I'm all aboard.
I'm one of the people who fears where this will end up until they release a statement clarifying that they aren't derailing the initial goals with the open source work and gaming expansions. I don't want this thing derailed for sports interests or abused as a cash cow by making nothing but VR Farmville clones. It's not the direction this was going, and I think that would be a huge loss to gaming and technological achievements in general. Especially if they do like was suggested and start an Apple Patent suing-war. Before this, Sony's project was barely on my radar. I was falling in love with what OR was accomplishing. Now I'm almost ready to join Notch and write them off. Financially this may have been a great idea. But from a PR perspective, I'm not so sure.. I guess we'll see and maybe my fears will be laid to rest in a good way. One can only hope
I'm not willing to write it off as a terrible event yet but it is a weird combination and I am hesitant.
I'm more willing to take the 'horrible end' route for this. Facebook is pretty terrible and Zuckerberg did state they were gunna add some facebook features to it. There's a lot of people jumping to conclusions but when Notch pulls out- When pornhub pulls out you know you've killed the product.
I'm sceptical at worst. It certainly seems like a strange marriage. I understand why Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR, but at the same time... why? I understand wanting to make money and being an entrepreneur or businessman, but why this and not something else that is a better fit for your company?
Also CliffyB apparently wrote a whiny-ass blog rant talking trout about Notch and praising this union as the next best thing since Microsoft originally announced no used games and always-on internet requirements for consoles