Oculus VR, Gaming’s Ray of Virtual Reality Hope, Bought by Facebook

[Arinoth]

Originally Posted by Birk

Well that sums up my interest in the OR now...hopefully Sony or Microsoft can release something comprisable in the future...sort of surprised Valve didn't buy them up, as imagine having that as a selling point/feature for the steam box....

[WiseWilson]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...-game/comments

check out the comments on the kickstarter page, people are pissed favourite comment is "I hate Facebook. Now that Oculus is controlled by Facebook, I hate Oculus."

[Shadowmeph]

Wow now that is very scary I thought that is was bad just facebook the way it was now there is going to be privacy what so ever. people are so trusting and stupid when it comes to things like this .
To me Facebook is almost evil lol google is just below facebook in my books

[Desiato]

If John Carmack is okay with this, I think we should be too. He's a smart, highly ethical guy who embodies the best values of the PC gaming community.

[Birk]

Originally Posted by Desiato

If John Carmack is okay with this, I think we should be too. He's a smart, highly ethical guy who embodies the best values of the PC gaming community.

Fact is... He sold out for $2 Billion Dollars. Greed Trumps Smarts.

[Desiato]

Originally Posted by Birk

Fact is... He sold out for $2 Billion Dollars. Greed Trumps Smarts.

That's not a fact. That's a kneejerk reaction. Tech news and discussion is now completely dominated by tabloid reporting and talk radio discussion. OMG WTF OMG WTF OMG WTF LOLOLOLOL FAIL. Argh. It's neogaf everywhere I go.

[SKYMTL]

My question is this: what is going to happen to all that money Oculus got through social campaigns like Kickstarter? Since those folks invested in the company, aren't they entitled to some returns or at least a refund?

[SugarJ]

All those Kickstarter people got their dev kits already. All that's left is a sense of entitlement from having funded them.

[Desiato]

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

My question is this: what is going to happen to all that money Oculus got through social campaigns like Kickstarter? Since those folks invested in the company, aren't they entitled to some returns or at least a refund?

Why would they? How are they in breach of contract? I'm not a huge Oculus fan, but my understanding is the Kickstarter was to fund the dev units. I believe the promised rewards were fulfilled. A consumer product was never going to hit the shelves without further investment.

I do not see any malice or deceit on the part of Oculus whatsoever. Just a mob angry because something it does not like happened.

[Birk]

Originally Posted by Desiato

That's not a fact. That's a kneejerk reaction. Tech news and discussion is now completely dominated by tabloid reporting and talk radio discussion. OMG WTF OMG WTF OMG WTF LOLOLOLOL FAIL. Argh. It's neogaf everywhere I go.

So if facebook had offered him $1m for his company he'd have taken it because facebook is 100% what Oculus needs to make it to market? If he didn't sell out because of the huge price tag and he is 100% only doing whats best then the answer should be Yes.