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!!! Facebook Buys Oculus Rift For $2 Billion

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#1 - 2014-03-25 21:44:27 UTC
http://kotaku.com/facebook-buys-oculus-rift-for-2-billion-1551487939

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/facebook-to-buy-oculus-vr-maker-of-the-rift-headset-for-around-2b-in-cash-and-stock/

So, it's over before it even really got started. Count me out.

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DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#2 - 2014-03-25 22:08:14 UTC  |  Edited by: DaReaper
hm... wonder how legit this is.. ah well I still want one

nm see it on the oculus page. CCP should of bought them, ah well.

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Robby Altair
#3 - 2014-03-25 22:41:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Robby Altair
Sweet. Start up sales big. Good for them.

Also, ABCNews reported it,.... and they're just reposting from the AP.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#4 - 2014-03-25 22:51:03 UTC
wartzilla ‏@wartzilla 1h

you now get to choose between getting screwed by sony, and getting screwed by facebook


blprnt ‏@blprnt 1h

Good news, folks: now your privacy can be violated IN THREE DIMENSIONS.


Warren Ellis ‏@warrenellis 1h

Cut to: Oculus Rift offices: "We glued an iPad to a diving mask and BOOM two billion dollars. THAT's our TED Talk."


http://whiteguyswearinoculusrifts.tumblr.com/

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Robby Altair
#5 - 2014-03-25 22:59:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Robby Altair
Can't stand Facebook. Don't use it.

Andreessen Horowitz invested $75 million into OR. That's just sick. Once again, Marc Andreessen is on top.

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Erica Dusette
Division 13
#6 - 2014-03-25 23:02:03 UTC
Farmville in 3D?

I can die happy.

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#7 - 2014-03-25 23:21:52 UTC
Sum Olgy
Perkone
Caldari State
#8 - 2014-03-26 00:08:04 UTC
Well if I heard right that CCP invested in Oculus then they now own a bit of Facebook.

So perhaps when the door opens you'll get to see all your Facebook friends? Lol
Sum Olgy
Perkone
Caldari State
#9 - 2014-03-26 00:08:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Sum Olgy
Eve forums hates the iPhone too.
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#10 - 2014-03-26 00:10:48 UTC
DaReaper wrote:
hm... wonder how legit this is.. ah well I still want one

nm see it on the oculus page. CCP should of bought them, ah well.


CCP buying them out would not be an intelligent move either.
Dessau
The Scope
#11 - 2014-03-26 00:12:08 UTC
BLACK-STAR
#12 - 2014-03-26 03:12:51 UTC
What is this face of book? Book of faces something.. something... who uses that?
Kairavi Mrithyakara
#13 - 2014-03-26 03:35:22 UTC
So Facebook bought a device meant to be worn on the face.

...Anyone else see where this is headed?
Pix Severus
Empty You
#14 - 2014-03-26 04:52:43 UTC
A sad day for gaming and technology.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2014-03-26 04:59:25 UTC
Kairavi Mrithyakara wrote:
So Facebook bought a device meant to be worn on the face.

...Anyone else see where this is headed?


A book to be worn on the face? Shocked

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Bobble Hat
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2014-03-26 09:35:21 UTC
Valkyria will be an intergalatic farmville with the space aspect used to travel between friends bio planets....

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Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#17 - 2014-03-26 09:54:19 UTC
You all think too small. If I was able to program something I would be trying to think of something super silly and easy to program that you know FB would gbble up with all their extra cash....edit: That also utilizes OR.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#18 - 2014-03-26 12:29:53 UTC
Andrew Vestal ‏@avestal

"I Kickstarted the Oculus Rift, what do I get?"
You got a lesson in how capitalism works.


Re-designed Occulus Rift


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Kairavi Mrithyakara
#19 - 2014-03-26 13:01:29 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:

Re-designed Occulus Rift




I think you'll find the Facebook™ ®edesigned® O©ulus Rif™ actually looks like this.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#20 - 2014-03-26 13:26:06 UTC
It ain't going so well over at the OR Kickstarter page Comments section at all.

"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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