It's fantastic news. Seriously. All it means is: […]
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It's fantastic news. Seriously. All it means is:
HEAPS of money to develop it - this is very good.
Many apps and worlds that will use it for social shit - to us gamers, we can be indifferent about this because it won't affect the gaming side one little bit.
It's hardware, not software. So they can't fuck with it or fuck it up. Even if FB wanted it purely for social VR - which they don't - the hardware would still have to be super-quality utterly convincing immersion. That's good. That's the hardware we wanted and expected.
Notch has been a precious bitch about it. 3rd-party support for Minecraft OR lets him have his little tanty and no-one loses.
Read Palmer Luckey's posts on Reddit HERE.
Among the highlights:
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This deal specifically lets us greatly lower the price of the Rift.
Just promise me there will be no specific Facebook tech tie-ins.
I promise.
Why would we want to sell to someone like MS or Apple? So they can tear the company apart and use the pieces to build out their own vision of virtual reality, one that fits whatever current strategy they have? Not a chance.
We have not gotten into all the details yet, but a lot of the news is coming. The key points:
1) We can make custom hardware, not rely on the scraps of the mobile phone industry. That is insanely expensive, think hundreds of millions of dollars. More news soon.
2) We can afford to hire everyone we need, the best people that fit into our culture of excellence in all aspects.
3) We can make huge investments in content. More news soon
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So, you 'Facebook is evil guys' - WHY is this bad, exactly, specifically, and don't just say "they'll ruin it".
Sony's annpuncement was bad news for OR. Sony have far better access to components and more power in the supply chain, and they can design and fab - or more easily have fabbed - custom ICs. That, and the liklihood Sony's VR will be cheaper than OR because it uses bit of the PS4 that you already own (like the camera), not to mention vast experience in engineering attractive and comfortable head mounted displays.
OR was facing a real threat, now it has a fighting chance.
So if the Sony came out and was better than the final OR would you not buy the Sony? Or is Sony too evil for your money, too?