Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected | TechCrunch
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Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    38·
    9 months ago

    The main thing it changed for me is completely writing off Oculus as a VR contender, thanks to Facebook/Meta being behind it.

    • curiousaur@reddthat.comEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      I’ll never forget being at GDC the year of the acquisition and trying out all these first wave VR games. There were Facebook suits litterally walking around the expo floor with checkbooks, asking how much it would cost to make the game an oculus exclusive. Lots of these devs just took the money and never released the game, or released something crappy and unfinished because the exclusivity check was more than they expected to make in sales.

      Facebook deeply wounded the entire VR ecosystem right as it was budding. Let’s not make them sound so innocent.

    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      Yeah I had really wanted one and would’ve eventually, now I have zero interest.

      I’d even go so far as to say seeing Meta get involved in it killed off a lot of my interest for VR in general.

  • watson387@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    17·
    9 months ago

    As soon as I found out you need a Facebook account to use it, all possibilities of me ever buying one ended.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    At the end of the day, all they did was subsume a neat company with a neat product and bastardize it into something that resembled a cog in Zuck’s money machine.

  • kinkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    55·
    9 months ago

    I waited a long time to get into VR because I was anticipating spending $1k+ on some tethered headset and I wanted to avoid Facebook. Finally my curiosity got the better of me and I bought a Quest 3.

    Holy moly I’m so glad I did. It’s an incredible device that costs half as much and yet does more than the headset I was planning to buy. I know Lemmy leans very anti-Facebook, and so did I to an extent, but I don’t regret my purchase one bit.

    • Sandbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      Don’t know why you are getting down voted, you bought what you thought was best for you. That’s all that matters what you think is best for you.