Facebook buying Occulus Rift for $2 Billion

[swilli89]

http://gigaom.com/2014/03/25/facebook-to-acquire-oculus-for-2-billion/

Nooooooooo

 

[lehtv]

Video Cards and Graphics?

 

[thilanliyan]

Just read this...
Not interested in playing Mafia Wars in VR

 

[cytg111]

NO no no no no no ... nooooooo.. early onset 1st of april surely.
Friggin suckerberg in my face!

 

[NTMBK]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[rtsurfer]

Nooooooo..

Now Facebook will ruin it like everything else they touched...

 

[ViRGE]

Yikes! Panicking is now authorized, and even advised!

 

[cytg111]

I feel violated by carmack .. wth dude

 

[rtsurfer]

Check out the The Verge comment section with Hilarious GIFs expressing the same things we are feeling...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/25/5547456/facebook-buying-oculus-for-2-billion

 

[ShintaiDK]

These companies got no idea of the value of money.

I wonder what facebook wants with it. I dont hope its some attempt to counter googles failglasses.

 

[manko]

April 1st is next week, isn't it?

 

[Phynaz]

Wow, that's a pile of cash for a company that doesn't have a final shipping product yet.

 

[ShintaiDK]

https://twitter.com/notch/status/448586381565390848

Quick response.

 

[Phynaz]

Oh, and now John Carmack works for Facebook. This is a strange world we live in.

 

[Eymar]

Media is going to love this. Waiting for first report on guy being robbed at home while VR dating on FB and girl was a guy in on the robbery.

 

[manko]

Do Kickstarter backers get a share of the proceeds or just a pair of lousy FB Goggles?

 

[swilli89]

This kind of thing really irks me about kickstarter. 2 Billion dollars? Man the people at this company could kick back 100 grand to each kickstarter and have a BILLION left. It had less than 10,000 backers. Some of the main guys at Oculus are now overnight millionaires.

 

[Peter Nixeus]

From my understanding Oculus Rift hype was mainly driven by the gaming community?

 

[DiogoDX]

The hilarious thing is that Carmack now work for facebook.

 

[Rinaun]

Oh how the mighty fall over time. Shame to see Facebook taking Oculus Rift with them (it will happen, just wait). I just do not see in any fathomable way how a VR helmet company is worth 2 billion dollars. It's not like they have proprietary patents on this. I also feel incredibly bad for all the kickstarter supporters. Talk about getting the bare minimum of what you supported.

 

[Phynaz]

Palmer Luckey
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21cy9n/the_future_of_vr/

 

[pakotlar]

Oh how the mighty fall over time. Shame to see Facebook taking Oculus Rift with them (it will happen, just wait). I just do not see in any fathomable way how a VR helmet company is worth 2 billion dollars. It's not like they have proprietary patents on this. I also feel incredibly bad for all the kickstarter supporters. Talk about getting the bare minimum of what you supported.

The kickstarted backers got (or will get) exactly what they paid for.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

Didn't Valve ship a ton of research to OR recently? :whiste:

Oh well, I'm sure someone else can pick up the slack. The tech behind OR is not exacly rocket science by now.

 

[jpiniero]

Palmer Luckey
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21cy9n/the_future_of_vr/

OK, that thread is some Comedy Gold.

 

[_Rick_]

I dont hope its some attempt to counter googles failglasses.

But that's what it looks like to me, at least in the long run.