Facebook buys Oculus Rift for $2 billion

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AwakeandAlive on 25 March 2014

ethomaz said:
Farmville VR and Candy Crush VR confirmed... lol

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lt_dan_27 on 25 March 2014

Looks like they've got their funding...

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kitler53 on 25 March 2014

facebook!? 2 billion!?

...i can feel the bubble,.. bubbling.

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Carl on 25 March 2014

And the VR plot thickens.

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hasonap said:
Well this was unexpected, why buy VR when you are in the social business?? Text chats via VR?

Virtual meeting place.. christmas with the whole family while they are across the country.. with Facebook Money behind it, it could be quicker here then you would think..

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episteme on 25 March 2014

Damn, Oculus Rift is dead for me now. Like Facebook in a few years with acquirements like this...

John Carmack can finally make the next FarmVille game.

This news made me think of buying a PS4 for the first time... But I'm pretty sure that VR will still come at some point to PC without Facebook.

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WagnerPaiva on 25 March 2014

What the heck that douchebag wants with Oculus Rift? But, in other hand, good news for Sony, now they are the winner on the VR race by default =D

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PenguinZ on 25 March 2014

hasonap said:
Well this was unexpected, why buy VR when you are in the social business?? Text chats via VR?

VR can easily be a social tool.

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BenVTrigger on 25 March 2014

WagnerPaiva said:
What the heck that douchebag wants with Oculus Rift? But, in other hand, good news for Sony, now they are the winner on the VR race by default =D

Not even close. If anything Oculus just dominated the early VR days.

Do you realise what kind of marketing and budget this will have now?

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