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> as Facebook cozies up closer and closer to Oculus and gang. My understanding is that Facebook has “geared up” Oculus: added a lot of staff. I would assume th
by bertil 10y ago
> as Facebook cozies up closer and closer to Oculus and gang.
My understanding is that Facebook has “geared up” Oculus: added a lot of staff. I would assume that a majority of engineers who are working on VR were originally Facebook hires; it’s certainly the case for things like back-end / scaling.
It’s not the most visible part of the company, but when Mark says publicly that a project is a priority, that means that the team can have a lot of engineers if they need to.
- drcross 10y agoOculus job specs are published on the facebook website.
- Alupis 10y agoI was referencing blog posts that ought to be on a blog, not in a Facebook post. Just because someone has worked for Facebook, or currently works for Facebook, doesn't make posting these sorts of articles on Facebook ideal. Even Facebook knows this... which presumably is why they chose to use a traditional blog style site for their... blog posts[1]. [1] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/ https://developers.facebook.com/blog/
- Jaruzel 10y agoLike it or not, when someone is a public figure, their posts on Facebook get LOTS of views. A larger percentage of internet users ONLY read Facebook these days. Carmack's profile has almost 10,000 followers and several hundred 'friends' each of which will have been pinged about the new post immediately. Even a popular blog won't be able to do that, that instantly. So you can see the attraction. Also, on Facebook there is the concept of 'Notes' which are better for long form writing and display in their own large overlay div. Not sure why Carmack didn't use it. I am not a fan of Facebook, but from a technical point of view the platform does have its merits.