You all probably have heard about Oculus Rift, the 3D-World-Glasses, originally designed for computer games.
There are already a few youtube videos about it (surely, you can not know the real effect since you didn't wear those glasses) and many praise it, as it is great in doing what it is designed for: making computer games more realistic.

On March, 25th, this year Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg took over Oculus Rift and I fear that this project will sort of suffer from it.
Sure, the game designers/programmers still can do games for it, but if I ever come to buy those glasses in the next years, it would make me a bit 'nervous' that it is from Facebook.

Facebook is a social website and surely saves every data, which is fine. Every site does that, at least should in my opinion, but you know it is limited to the site. Basically: They can't know what I do not show on their site.
Simple as that, but if the glasses were to somehow transfer pictures at random times to their servers, I wouldn't know how to feel about that. If it is for gaming only, well I could care less, but I'm sure over the years many things will be done in those glasses, just because for the sake of it making the experience more realistic. Imagine cinema-quality movies in those glasses.

Any opinions on that?

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Mar 27 2014, 2:41 pm by Devourer.

VR is a gimmick and many people get sick from it, anyway.

I'd rather wait for a full immersion VR. Just being able to see is boring as all hell.
Hopefully we don't lose our logout buttons.

I'm pretty sure this move is going to kill the Oculus Rift, I don't see how facebook has the knowledge to sustain the sort of R&D that it'll need, even if (I assume) they keep the original team on. I think there are so many other places facebook could've more logically expanded into, I'm not really sure what the end game is with this purchase. It seems irresponsible. I guess you could make the argument they were trying to diversify, but what a high risk company/product to acquire for that purchase.

As for being nervous about facebook... Facebook makes me incredibly not nervous. What are you afraid of happening?

Them flashing millisecond long pictures of ads and getting away with it since it's isolated, rather than broadcasted.

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Well it's a social network. They will probably try to build something like 2nd life in VR. Or like XBox slam a chat module into a console. Or simply log what you're doing with VR so they can refine your advertising profiles.

Don't forget it's sound too. But yeah simulating touch would be awesome, but like smell this is far from being developed.

The only thing that's feasible in the foreseeable future is a treadmill or cage that simulates actual locomotion. But the cost of it will make it unattractive.

The Oculus Rift isn't the only VR headset on the market. You kiddies can relax.

Besides that, buying it and using it for only their social platform is a hilariously bad business strategy.

Doesn't change much to me so it's fine in my book

I'm going to be able to visit my waifus sooner than before now with facebook money backing it up

For those who think this is terrible news, watching this might make it a little less terrible.

I don't really care all that much myself as I was never hyped about it in the first place, but I don't really want anything to do with Facebook, so it's even more unlikely that I'll buy it now.