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"Zuckerberg explained that he felt that Oculus represented an entirely new post-PC and post-mobile platform." He's probably right. While Google and others are
by psbp 13y ago
"Zuckerberg explained that he felt that Oculus represented an entirely new post-PC and post-mobile platform."
He's probably right. While Google and others are focusing on half-baked wearables as their key to the future, facebook just bought a huge chunk of the most likely successor.
- aviraldg 13y agoWrong. Google knows that there's immense potential in VR. It's just too early for them to get into it yet. The pushback from privacy advocates would kill any potential project.
- Oculus 13y agoIronically, gathered from reading the initial reactions of early adopters, I think they just destroyed the chances of Oculus succeeding.
- joshmlewis 13y agoIs your name a coincidence?
- Oculus 13y agoYeah, I just like the name :)
- GuiA 13y agoI would be very, very surprised if there weren't a few window-less rooms in Cupertino with prototype HMDs bolted to tables in them :)
- RandallBrown 13y agoIt makes "real" social interaction live in the virtual world.
- ctdonath 13y agoThing is, Google is pursuing wearables as pursuant to its core competency: data mining. What does VR have to do with Facebook's core competency?
- zorpner 13y agoEye tracking.
- kailuowang 13y agoYou sound like Oculus owns some really valuable technology (they clearly don't own a 2B user base yet). But did sony spend $2B for R&D in their VR project? I doubt so.
- dangerlibrary 13y agoFacebook spent 400m and 1.6b of overvalued stock.