Facebook eats at the Occulus Rift, leaves $2b tip

Yeah, Instagram at least didn't turn out to go the way many expected. Apart from their colour scheme went from brown to blue, lol.

As written previously, totally agree with Pogo. I bet they don't even really know how they could use it outside gaming, it's just a great asset to have. I guess it will sound very nice in their financial meetings.

"Facebook shills caught astroturfing on Reddit":

http://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporat…_occulus_shill/

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The goal is to start a Kickstarter project on June 1st that will end on July 1st, shipping afterwards as soon as possible. I won't make a penny of profit off this project, the goal is to pay for the costs of parts, manufacturing, shipping, and credit card/Kickstarter fees with about $10 left over for a celebratory pizza and beer. - Palmer Luckey

The kickstarter money was long gone by the time FB bought them. There were other private investors, of whom I know one, who had been feeding them a lot more money than kickstarter.

Yeah they barely injected around 80 millions dollars in the project and now they have a great ROI imao.

Also read Notch blog...

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Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers. People have made games for Facebook platforms before, and while it worked great for a while, they were stuck in a very unfortunate position when Facebook eventually changed the platform to better fit the social experience they were trying to build.

http://notch.net/2014/03/virtua…ange-the-world/

Reddit was invaded by Facebook shills/bots after the announcement last night. This shit is getting so fucking annoying. Only shows how of a "nice" company FB really is and how they can completely fuck Occulus rift up.

Example:

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Nexus is the original internet shill, we invented it we deserve credits for that

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Reddit was invaded by Facebook shills/bots after the announcement last night. This shit is getting so fucking annoying. Only shows how of a "nice" company FB really is and how they can completely fuck Occulus rift up.

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How does this show anything about fb, other than some fanatics defending them? What they are saying isn't exactly wrong either.

Edit: I googled shill so point taken.

Same comments by "different" users in different subs. The guy even forgot to switch accounts in the gaming thread Or it could be just a fanatic Facebook fan, who knows lol

By the way, this is nothing new, other big companies and even the governmenta have been doing this for years now:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2…g-manipulation/

That serves to show how dangerous it is to form your opinion based on internets comments alone, how nice of a company Facebook is (if they are really being that low that is) and what to expect from the "social VR experience"

J'aime mon Minos!

Also same kind of technique used by spy... That what I would call rhetoric...

http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

Last I've heard was that Oculus couldn't keep up with demand cos they were getting scraps from the mobile industry...

So it seems like good news in one way, I just hope they get to stay somewhat independent.

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gamers atm:

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Facebizzle has just announced dat itz buyin Oculus Rift fo' $2 billion. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch. Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. Seriously.
"Mobile is tha platform of todizzle, n' now we also gettin locked n loaded fo' tha platformz of tomorrow," Facebizzle smoker n' CEO Mark Zuckerberg say. "Oculus has tha chizzle ta create da most thugged-out hood platform ever, n' chizzle tha way we work, play n' rap."

Oculus is equally chuffed. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! "We is buckwild ta work wit Mark n' tha Facebizzle crew ta serve up tha straight-up dopest virtual realitizzle platform up in tha ghetto," Brendan Iribe, co-smoker n' CEO of Oculus VR say up in a PR release. "We believe virtual realitizzle is ghon be heavily defined by hood experiences dat connect playas up in magical, freshly smoked up ways. Well shiiiit, it aint nuthin but a transformatizzle n' disruptizzle technology, dat enablez tha ghetto ta experience tha impossible, n' itz only just tha beginning."

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Facebizzle has just announced dat itz buyin Oculus Rift fo' $2 billion. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch. Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. Seriously."Mobile is tha platform of todizzle, n' now we also gettin locked n loaded fo' tha platformz of tomorrow," Facebizzle smoker n' CEO Mark Zuckerberg say. "Oculus has tha chizzle ta create da most thugged-out hood platform ever, n' chizzle tha way we work, play n' rap."

Oculus is equally chuffed. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! "We is buckwild ta work wit Mark n' tha Facebizzle crew ta serve up tha straight-up dopest virtual realitizzle platform up in tha ghetto," Brendan Iribe, co-smoker n' CEO of Oculus VR say up in a PR release. "We believe virtual realitizzle is ghon be heavily defined by hood experiences dat connect playas up in magical, freshly smoked up ways. Well shiiiit, it aint nuthin but a transformatizzle n' disruptizzle technology, dat enablez tha ghetto ta experience tha impossible, n' itz only just tha beginning."

You guys should really read this: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/faceb…rust/1100-4884/

It exactly underlines why I'm not getting this hate. Especially the vocal Kickstarter backers have no right to complain. It's a recommended read that puts it in perspective.

Kickstarter people need to open up a dictionary and understand the difference between donating money and investing in a company.