Now that Facebook will own Oculus, are you going to buy an Oculus Rift?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Like what kind of data.

Pretty much everything, that's how Facebook makes their money.

[trip21]

Facebook own a device that fits over your head. How long before they rebrand it The Mind Probe?

[Torolol]

as long the Oculus doesn't requires connected to internet for being operational, and NOT try to sending any data to internet, i would buy one.

[spaceelf]

I'm between 'I might buy one.' and 'Yes.' because I don't know how the competition stacks up, but I definitely plan on buying one from soneone.

 

I suspect the pressure from their competition is why they 'sold out'...if their product doesn't come out soon enough it'll be facing competition they can't necessarily deal with.

[Joshie]

I mean, I'm not some dumb college kid anymore who thinks he has the world figured out because he can stay up late enough to watch The Daily Show now, so I don't do knee-jerk anti-corporate crap like a lot of toddlers on the internet upvote. Rather than massage my own ego declaring I've already made a decision even though nobody has any idea whatsoever how this will actually affect Rift, I'll just wait and see when they release the product, like any sane adult would.

 

But hey, there's nothing wrong with coming to conclusions with nothing but seething hatred to back them up. Sure, you might not have two brain cells to rub together and don't deserve any respect as a fellow human, but there's nothing wrong.

[0nyX]

Doesn't change a thing for me. I was not going to buy one.

[Krome]

Facebook own a device that fits over your head. How long before they rebrand it The Mind Probe?

nah... "The Mind Probe" is too obvious.  I think they will call it something like "Enya Facebook"

[He's Dead Jim]

found this graphic

[Shaun N.]

Damn I just heard about this, that's a real shame. I had high hopes for the Oculus Rift. I was going to, I was really looking forward to it but now I will certainly not get one. I'll wait for the next non-FB version. I hear Sony are making one.

[MikeChipshop Member]

What I find funny is that people are abandoning something ground breaking just because Facebook owns them. For some reason I don't have the same hatred for Facebook as everyone else does. If it's an amazing product i'm going to buy it regardless of who owns it and i've been drooling over the Oculus rift ever since I saw it.

 

Spot on. Most of the people i've seen moaning about it still have Facebook accounts so they're f***ing idiots!

 

I'll still buy, it's a very, very interesting piece of tech. I used one of my developer mates ones (1st dev kit) and although the quality wasn't perfect, it was an amazing experience. The games, although obviously limited, were amazingly immersive, horror games did something no game or movie has done for years and actually scared me and watching films on the VR cinema was better than being at the actual cinema!

 

Unlike 3D, it's totally worth the fact you have to wear something on your face.

 

They've now just managed to secure $2b of extra capital (more or less), this isn;t a bad thing no matter where it comes from. I don't expect to see it particularly integrated with FB in any way and i'd imagine it'll operate as pretty much a stand alone any way.

Obviously i could be wrong but let's hope not.

 

I'm also interested as to what MS can come up with. Whether you're a fan of the Kinect or not, just imagine what would be do-able with a VR mask and the Kinect?!

[HawkMan]

My decision to buy an OR is not affected by facebook owning them in the slightest.

 

If the price is fair and I can afford it, AND there's a good selection of interesting games(most proper modern combat flight sims) I will buy one. 

 

and don't fool yoruself, you say you won't buy one now, but when the thing comes around, it's awesome and there's lots of awesome games, you're guys are going to buy it.

[trip21]

nah... "The Mind Probe" is too obvious.  I think they will call it something like "Enya Facebook"

 

Yeah Google likely have a TM on mind probe technology anyway!

[game_over]

The General public does not hate facebook as much as a bunch of you seem too.

 

The general public are the people that are ruining it. It consumes peoples lives and spews out the absolute worst in everybody that allows the site to consume them. Facebook have also made it impossible for anyone else to get away from it. All it takes is one or two idiots on your friends list and it will be completely full of shares, videos, fake prizes, like and share baiting.. Facebook has completely lost it's identity, it's no longer about finding out what your friends and family are up to. I would love to use the site to actually network with friends, but it's impossible because that is not the aim of the site anymore.

 

People are so addicted to it they believe everything on there is true.. last week there was a page called Bugatti (the car brand) with a picture of a white car wrapped in a red bow being shared.. All you had to do was share and like the page for your chance to win.. wait for it.. TWO ASTON MARTINS!

 

It had thousands of shares and likes from the desperate brain dead zombies hoping for a chance to scoop this non existent prize. Why the ###### would VW or a page about BUGATTI be giving away TWO ASTON MARTINS? with a value of roughly ?100,000 ... It takes 5 seconds of rational thinking to realise that it is just not realistic.

 

For that reason, i have very little interest in Facebook and anything this company decides to develop or acquire.

[Jarrichvdv]

Everyone who just loses interest in Oculus without a SINGLE clue how the future of Oculus is going to look like with Facebook; is being really childish. I expected some more from Neowin members.

[HawkMan]

Everyone who just loses interest in Oculus without a SINGLE clue how the future of Oculus is going to look like with Facebook; is being really childish. I expected some more from Neowin members.

 

Why ? you new ?  this is a site of tech people. there's no people more self entitled and self important and prejudiced than these ;p

[Quapps]

Oculus Rift porn app :nod:

 

Maybe it would be caled Facef#*k by Facebook.

 

I was always going to buy one and no amount of the hipsters in this post will convince me it is a bad move now Facebook is in the picture.

[dead.cell]

I'm not totally against the idea, if I could understand what Facebook hopes to do with Oculus. Somehow, I'm expecting them to come out and give people the insight of what they want to do. They really cannot afford to sit on this quietly.

 

I do find it funny how Facebook's own name could devalue the Oculus Rift though lol.

[cork1958]

"I was never gong to buy one but if I was going to buy it I wouldn't care if facebook owned them or not"

 

I might have voted for the above line if it was worded like this:

I was never gong to buy one but if I was going to buy it I WOULD care if facebook owned them or not.

[FiB3R]

*I might buy one

What I will be buying, is the best VR system available it the time, whatever that may be.

[0nyX]

I'm not totally against the idea, if I could understand what Facebook hopes to do with Oculus.

Probably not even the people from Oculus really know what Facebook is planning to do with Oculus.

[ditoax]

I have been very interested in OR since the Kickstarter however I am not the kind of person to back such things. I do believe that VR tech will play a very important role in the future not just of gaming but many other areas too.

 

That said I still feel we are quite a way off from VR being something that is "just there". I am not an early adopter of technology though so I would not be a version 1 buyer unless it really was incredible.

 

I have mixed feelings about Facebook buying OR. In many ways it seems kind of odd for Facebook to be looking at the VR tech however I think the better way to look at the purchase is nothing Facebook+OR but as Facebook as just being a technology company that now own a VR "arm" so to speak. It isn't really important to Facebook other than from an investment oppertunity. It is not going to be the most important thing in the world for their current business in social networking but it might be big business in another area. So I look at the purchase as just that. A purchase.

 

In the short term yeah it looks weird and I can understand why a lot of people feel that they will kill off OR but who knows. If they just let OR continue doing what they are doing then nothing should really change. Hopefully this will be how they want to do things. I think all of these knee jerk reactions are a bit disappointing. I am no Facebook fan but at the same time I don't really care enough about Facebook to get upset about such things. I just ignore them for the most part.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

Meh. I had heard about Oculus Rift, but I understood that I would have to wait until it was out and I could try it before making a decision on whether to buy it or not. That opinion hasn't changed with this news.

Null vote.

[srbeen]

Im probably going to need to make ties with facebook to use it now, so I guess the answer is no.

 

If they are completely independent products and I don't need to share on facebook that I have/use one, nor is facebook required to log into it/use it, I may consider. While the tech may be groundbreaking sony also announced something similar for the PS4 and I presume this is ony the start.

[firey]

really depends.  If it is facebook branded, has a facebook UI.. has all sorts of "Firey just played 3d sex villa with on the rift!", or requires facebook.. I am not interested.  However if it is simply a peripheral (like it should be) then I may still buy it.

[Ironman273]

I've been playing with a 1st generation Oculus Rift and, while interesting, it's very clunky and hasn't increase my interest for a VR product.  I realize things will change as the product (or the VR space) matures but the first impression was "meh".

 

As for Facebook, they're not a charity.  They bought OR because they felt they can monetize it in some way that aligns with their goals.  Not sure why else Facebook would be interested in it besides some sort of data mining.