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Zuckerberg is buying Oculus

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Robert Caldera
Caldera Trading and Investment
#21 - 2014-03-26 11:09:40 UTC
Good I've never been into this stuff...
otherwise it would go same way as WhatsApp.
Serene Repose
#22 - 2014-03-26 13:54:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Serene Repose
"We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus,” Persson said on Twitter shortly after the news broke. “I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.”

Y'all Facebook weenies hail your hero, Zuckerberg. History will mention you...with a LOL.

Boycott all Facebook functions.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Shadowlightt
Doomheim
#23 - 2014-03-26 13:57:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Shadowlightt
Again facebook is doing a illegal monopoly. There is nothing we can do about it unless one of you has 3 billion dollars.Next stop is twitter
Mirajane Cromwell
#24 - 2014-03-26 14:11:58 UTC
So... what could happen is that every Valkyrie kill will be automatically posted to your FB wall and then everyone will be farming FB likes for the best kills?
Qalix
Long Jump.
#25 - 2014-03-26 14:13:26 UTC
Stu Pendisdick wrote:
SpaceSaft wrote:


If this goes through, EVE Valkyrie and the Oculus are dead to me.

Your thoughts?



I really looked forward to this game.

Now?

No way in *HELL*.

Sorry, CCP.


oh please. it's the same damn device
Desivo Delta Visseroff
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2014-03-26 14:24:52 UTC
Oculus will be the next Free-to-Blind tech breakout! Featuring intrusive ads, seizure inducing pop-up notifications and retina shattering friend requests. You'll be blind, drooling and dumb, but you'll have 10,000 friends who hate life, just like youBig smile

Get in on the ground floor!

I was hunting for sick loot, but all I could get my hands on were 50 corpses[:|]..............[:=d]
Metal Icarus
Star Frontiers
Brotherhood of Spacers
#27 - 2014-03-26 14:32:32 UTC
So, beyond the facebook fear mongering, 2 billion dollars just went towards a device that we like (pending). That money will be used to hire great project managers, better engineers, designers, programmers, sales ppl.

We all hate comcast but we still use their service... erryday. Just because the company bought them doesnt mean they are going to buttfuck the device with like buttons.

This MAY have just made it better.

.... but I am still not convinced.... hopeful but not happy. I do not want every loss mail posted to my facebook.... it would just block out everything.
Lachra
Lachra Corporation
#28 - 2014-03-26 14:34:15 UTC
I guess Zuckerberg is wanting to take the name Facebook to a literal translation, you will literally be wearing the website on your face from now on. The guy has snapped.
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#29 - 2014-03-26 14:34:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Felicity Love
... waits for Lousiana and Alaska to be bought, again... because after awhile, hookers, fast cars, executive jets and mansions in The Keys just gets "old" and software moguls need a new "status" standard.

Roll

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DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#30 - 2014-03-26 16:18:39 UTC
i'm just going to post this, because one of the comments make me go huh? You do realize that all the games on facebook are not owned or operated by facebook right? Zynga runs them. They just utilize Facebooks platform. So the game invites, and like spam is not because of facebook, its because of zynga utilizing tools in the facebook platform to do that. This is like complaing that Microsoft is spaming you ads when your looking at a porn site. No, the porn site is utilizing the platform of your web browser that runs on windows to do that. So yes you could have Farmville 3d because zynga thinks they can make money off it.

Anyway, the rest of your complaints are valid, but its still too early to tell.

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x Shinsengumi X
#31 - 2014-03-26 16:31:30 UTC
All I can read in this thread is people overreacting.

Occulus Rift is still Occulus Rift, all that changes is where the money flows to and from.
Yeah, yeah it might change its direction a bit in the long run, but only the stupidest company would avoid selling it as the product that made it popular in the first place.

Besides, there are a few ups such as better financial backing. That could mean more frequent iterations, availability in more countries, more advertising making more developers interested in developing for it, etc.

So yeah big businesses do kind of put their own stamp on things like a few other things I can think of like:
-Microsoft bought skype, they integrated their Microsoft account system into it.
-Google has Youtube, they integrated their google plus account system into it.

Occulus rift if a physical product that doesn't sport a web UI in the damn thing... worst that can happen in my opinion is that you can log on the occulus rift website with your FB account?

Besides so many websites that aren't even affiliated with Facebook have tons of Facebook related features in them, even games! But that's not Facebook's decision but rather the game/website/product that decided it wanted to because it can generate cheap advertisement.

Take a chill pill guys.
Icarus Able
Refuse.Resist
#32 - 2014-03-26 16:40:28 UTC
Yeh this is bad no doubt. But you guys are overreacting.
Twulf
Purple Void Corporation
LinkNet
#33 - 2014-03-26 17:07:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Twulf
Pix Severus wrote:
SpaceSaft wrote:
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-to-buy-oculus-rift-for-2-billion-2014-3

If this goes through, EVE Valkyrie and the Oculus are dead to me.

Your thoughts?


I just want a device that I can use without having to give away all my personal info and dirty secrets. Anyone who trusts Zuckerberg is a "dumb ****" - his words.


You are the dumb****. If you are online, you have zero privacy. If you buy stuff online, your personal information is now online and anything online is public.

When are people going to learn there is no such thing as security on the Internet. If it is online it is hackable, period. Nothing is 100% secure if it is connected to the Internet.
Jasmine Assasin
The Holy Rollers
#34 - 2014-03-26 17:21:53 UTC
Twulf wrote:
Pix Severus wrote:
SpaceSaft wrote:
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-to-buy-oculus-rift-for-2-billion-2014-3

If this goes through, EVE Valkyrie and the Oculus are dead to me.

Your thoughts?


I just want a device that I can use without having to give away all my personal info and dirty secrets. Anyone who trusts Zuckerberg is a "dumb ****" - his words.


You are the dumb****. If you are online, you have zero privacy. If you guy stuff online, your personal information is now online and anything online is public.

When are people going to learn there is no such thing as security on the Internet. If it is online it is hackable, period. Nothing is 100% secure if it is connected to the Internet.



Hence why I don't use FB, Twitter, Skype (especially since the MS takeover), online banking, etc...

Some of us stick to what we mean when we say we don't want any part of this crap.

The younger crowd eats it up though and they are going to pay for it.
Lachra
Lachra Corporation
#35 - 2014-03-26 17:27:35 UTC
Jasmine Assasin wrote:
Hence why I don't use FB, Twitter, Skype (especially since the MS takeover), online banking, etc...

Some of us stick to what we mean when we say we don't want any part of this crap.

The younger crowd eats it up though and they are going to pay for it.


Is there a one-click option?
Major 'Revolver' Ocelot
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#36 - 2014-03-26 17:38:15 UTC
This is hilarious.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#37 - 2014-03-26 18:16:34 UTC
Apparently free market economics only suits some people when its people they like doing the investing.

At least the fething thing will see the light of day now.

Not that I wanted anything to do with it before hand.

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Organic Lager
Drinking Buddies
#38 - 2014-03-26 18:30:28 UTC
Waste of money, this will tank harder then virtual boy. Companies seriously need to get the memo that cheap tactics to trick our senses aren't good enough anymore. (Wii, 3d and xbox one looking at you)

The next true innovation needs to come as a neurological link to the brain to give us true virtual reality, matrix style. Until then I'm always going to feel like dope dancing around in my living room.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#39 - 2014-03-26 18:33:05 UTC
Zuckerberg just wants to "interface" with Ashley Judd

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
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x Shinsengumi X
#40 - 2014-03-26 19:06:38 UTC
Organic Lager wrote:
Waste of money, this will tank harder then virtual boy. Companies seriously need to get the memo that cheap tactics to trick our senses aren't good enough anymore. (Wii, 3d and xbox one looking at you)

The next true innovation needs to come as a neurological link to the brain to give us true virtual reality, matrix style. Until then I'm always going to feel like dope dancing around in my living room.


Have you tried the Occulus Rift?

This isn't an experiment, the demand already exists.
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