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So facebook buys Oculus vr..
11 years ago
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The oculus rift is an in development stereoscopic headset meant to produce a virtual reality like experience in gaming.
At least that was the goal before it was bought.
Considering the company facebook since it's IPO has been more or less struggling to make money for it's investors there is no way in the universe that they will not change this.
Especially due to the 2 BILLION dollar price tag.
So what should you and i expect? Here is a short list that comes to mind.
1. Facebook account will be mandatory for use.
2. When you play games with the rift your activity will be monitored by facebook's servers in the background to sell the statistical data to marketers.
3. In the foreground when you play a game with achievements(or similar awards) you will be prompted if you would to 'update your facebook page' with an announcement of you achieving one.
4. Facebook games like farmville will be updated to take advantage of the Oculus Rift, prompting anyone who wants to play it to buy one. Similar to how nintendo handles wii and wii-u remote accessories.
5. Facebook will release a skype clone using the device and try to make it legitimate when everyone knows that it is used for cybering.
At least that was the goal before it was bought.
Considering the company facebook since it's IPO has been more or less struggling to make money for it's investors there is no way in the universe that they will not change this.
Especially due to the 2 BILLION dollar price tag.
So what should you and i expect? Here is a short list that comes to mind.
1. Facebook account will be mandatory for use.
2. When you play games with the rift your activity will be monitored by facebook's servers in the background to sell the statistical data to marketers.
3. In the foreground when you play a game with achievements(or similar awards) you will be prompted if you would to 'update your facebook page' with an announcement of you achieving one.
4. Facebook games like farmville will be updated to take advantage of the Oculus Rift, prompting anyone who wants to play it to buy one. Similar to how nintendo handles wii and wii-u remote accessories.
5. Facebook will release a skype clone using the device and try to make it legitimate when everyone knows that it is used for cybering.
This same journal and others like it appeared during:
Disney/Marvel
Yahoo/Tumblr
Facebook/Instagram.
and in each case, the legion of internet "oracles" have been proven wrong to the highest degree.
For the Record, I am not the biggest fan of Facebook either, but I'm not going to throw rationality out the window.
Facebook is diversifying. Zuckerberg KNOWS that people dislike facebook. He isn't going to force more FB into people's faces because that will only cause them to leave faster(Unlike Google). So what is he doing? Diversifying.
He purchased Instagram and most recently What'sApp before OR. It's been nearly 2 YEARS and you STILL don't need a facebook account to use Instagram. Facebook will use OR as a gaming device to start off and build a small foundation from which they can expand. If they do any of the above that you suggest, they'll have thrown away 2 billion dollars. Even Oculus staff itself had commented months before(December) that they had already begun to look into uses beyond gaming for OR based on the community experiments.
If any game is integrated with Facebook, it will probably be the work of the developer and not Facebook itself unless they wish to kill it off completely. Carmack will be my anchor, as long as he stays, I will continue to monitor the rift. If he changes, or if he leaves the company then I will be done with OR.
Unlike many who seem to want VR confined to only gaming, I want to see it grow, and outside of Valve, I literally could not see a "better" company handling OR.
You don't give out 2 billion dollars out of the goodness of your heart because you want the tech to be a success, you do it to snatch up the company before someone else does because you want to earn a return on that investment.
You defeat your own point. If the shareholders feel they can make more money through relative independence as opposed to integration, they will go through with that.
I listed 3 examples of acquisitions that were all over 1 Billion, in which the parent companies have basically left the acquired company untouched.
Marvel popularity is exploding, while DC fails to boot anything that isn't batman in live action.
Tumblr isn't dead or censored to hell because yahoo bought it.
Instagram hasn't forced facebook on anybody for almost 2 years.
Facebook's growth is abysmal at about 3-5%. Instagram grows at a nearly 8x rate compared to Facebook. The only thing they need to do is grow their other properties.