Facebook buys Oculus for $2 billion

C'mon who would't have done the same, they offered 2 BILLION DOLLARS!

 

Yeah 2 billion dollars basically is like saying "Give us your stuff and do whatever else you want in life on us"

...I would have taken it.

 

So true... It's stupid that we don't have display devices that can have good viewing angles, picture quality and be fast at same time. It's a shame when you have professional broadcast monitor that can't reproduce clear black. It's more expensive than a fucking car, dammit!

For social networks - devil invented them. And not just because Big Brother records your every post. When i see people with tablets and phones posting nonsense for two hours in a bus or train, it's depressing. Zombies, they are everywhere!

 

I've had my doubts about the Puke-ulous-Rift since it got press from the Kickstarter campaign. First, big movie studios can't even get the ancient 3D technology from making a portion of the viewing customers sick. The number is not huge, but significant and the movie studios actually put some money into testing 3D induced nausea on a fairly large scale. To date Oculous has done no such thing, heck Nintendo couldn't even do it with the VirtualBoy. I wouldn't be surprised when it finally does come to market, that 50%-/+ of users will experience deal-breaking nausea from limited use. Theyby limiting its overall market penetration.

Next, I hope this puts an end to commercial venture crowd sourcing, by leaving a bad taste in everyone's mouth. I really think taking those early backers money and then selling out to VC-istans, whom then brokered a deal to Facebook, says that the Oculus management team considers Kickstarter backers, SUCKERS! Crown-sourcing should be strictly used for academic research and charity, absolutely no "business ventures" should be funded in this manner. If their goal was to create a VC type company, they should have gone and got loans like all the other VC companies out there. They are ungrateful thieves if you really put it all into perspective. There is still time for them to reward the early backers, but I think they will take the money and run as is expected these days.

Heck, if we all used the same thought process and ethical foundation of the Oculus management team, we should all be able to stand on the corner asking for free money that we have no intention of returning. Was what they did legal? Yes. But also HIGHLY unethical? Yes, also. I hope this puts a big dent in the Kickestart/Indiegogo phenomena and shifts crowd-sourcing back to strictly academic or charitable pursuits.

However I just realized that the Oculus company may have sold-out early due to inevitable, impending, patent infringement suits. No better protection than from a big fish like Facebook. The Oculus management team gets to have their cake and eat it too, they get a payout and none of the headache of defending lawsuits based on stealing/borrowing design elements:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/kickstarter-hit-with-lawsuit/#!BDRM9

http://www.waltmire.com/2014/01/17/patent-protecting-invention-launching-kickstarter-campaign/

 

oops...double post

 

When youtube and instagram sold they were both running on fumes else they woulda asked for more. Whatsapp was in negotiations for months until the zuck dropped his wallet and broke the floor

I wouldnt be surprised if it turns out the investors freaked out and pushed for a sale after the Morpheus unveiling. As much as the media likes to portray startups like a founder playground the reality is that investors have these guys by the balls and what they want is an early exit and a high ROI, they couldnt care less about users, being a "sellout" or whatever the fuck the buyer does with the company

After all a month from now nobody is going to care anymore