Facebook Purchases Technology of the Future
Words: Violet
, Controversy sparked as Facebook makes a $2 billion of Oculus VR, the creators behind the virtual reality headset, Oculus Rift. Gamers and game developers took to Twitter last night to unleash their opinions on the deal, many extremely disappointed and disheartened that the rising technology company has been brought by the massive social corporation. Many are questioning what this means for the direction of Oculus Rift, not least of which the experts in the field.
At a press conference yesterday, Zuckerberg spoke of how he is “getting ready for the platform of tomorrow… Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever.” This includes, for example, virtual court-side seats at a sports game, the ability to study in a classroom across the other side of the world and meet a doctor face-to-face (well, virtually of course).
Oculus have described that they will start selling a consumer product later in 2014.
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