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Sony has a big battle against facebook and oculus rift as both want to intergrate social features into their virtual reality devices. However, and idk if Sony understands this but Playstation home can be the game changer for social media and project morpheus if Sony decides to market it better and adds an intuitive ui to it. 

I'm also not talking about facebook.com vs Sony Corp im talking about facebook vs Playstation in vr social media.



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like they need to. facebook isnt a tech company, they will fail hard with oculus.
its just usefull for gaming and facebook isnt into gaming, and they dont have the money to make it work in the long run.



They can, if they can infiltrate their management policies. In just few seconds, boom, red earnings numbers.



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It's not like Sony can't leverage their future fanbase if, ps4 continues its momentum, to put some r&d for porting home onto the ps4 and adding virtual reality to the world. It's really their best option to compete against facebook's future virtual reality world.



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No one realy cares about VR gaming... if the public adoption didn´t spike in the next 2 years there is no reason to belive it won´t die... again.



kowenicki said:
generic-user-1 said:
like they need to. facebook isnt a tech company, they will fail hard with oculus.
its just usefull for gaming and facebook isnt into gaming, and they dont have the money to make it work in the long run.


But Sony have said that it isnt and wont be just for gaming.  So are they wrong too?

Facebook isnt a tech company is one of the weirdest things I have ever heard.

sony has the content to make it a bit more than just gaming, but its mostly for gaming. our do u think everybody will use it for work or social connecting? gaming, movies and porn in the future(movies maybe, porn for sure).

and facebook isnt a real tech company, they dont have any outstanding tech,facebook as product isnt realy impressiv or won the race because its the best. they just dont have the knowhow. facebook is a one trick pony, not more.



Despite being competitors, they aren't "direct" competitors. Rift doesn't work on PS4, Morpheus won't work on PCs. If you play on PS4, get a Morpheus. If you play on PC get a Rift. Looks simple to me.

About which one will be more successful, it's still doubtful. Sony has the advantage of owning both the device, the platform and games and could use their first party efforts to push it. Rift has to hope that 3rd parties will support a device that only a few have and that will demand a decent PC for gaming that very few have. Oculus has the advantage of trying new markets besides gaming and maybe hitting a casual hit in the long run.

I think it all depends on what focus will Facebook give to the Rift. Facebook is a tech company of course, but they aren't a hardware company (and failed pretty hard in their FB phone projects) and definitively isn't a gaming company. The hardware itself doesn't have any value if it doesn't have a (or several) killer app to sell it, like Wii Sports for the Wiimote and Kinect Sports/Adventure for the Kinect. In this aspect, Sony has the advantage of being capable of creating a killer game for their device. The wildcard here is that Facebook can have a non-gaming application that can move the Rift. But in this case, then the devices wouldn't even be competitors: a gaming virtual reality headset for PS4 vs. a non-gaming virtual reality headset for PCs.



Dark_Feanor said:
No one realy cares about VR gaming... if the public adoption didn´t spike in the next 2 years there is no reason to belive it won´t die... again.

The anotomy of a statements that throw out opinion as fact...

No one realy cares about VR gaming...
Yet facebook just spent billions aquiring OR. Sony is heavily invested in VR. But more imporatnatly, how can you guage what people care for or not care for when its not even released in any sort of official capacity.

if the public adoption didn´t spike in the next 2 years
Anyone see what is wrong with this line? First off lets assume he meant to say don't instead of didn't cause at using didn't would mean that he has already seen how public perception did not spike in the next two years, and that is even assuming that either VR tech has the next two years with them being officially on the market for there to be some sort of standard for the public to form an opinion over. But back to (don't), again.. how about we actually wait for there to be actual VR tech and VR content. That you can walk into bestbuy or something and just buy.

 

there is no reason to belive it won´t die... again.
Again? are we talking about the virtuaboy here? Cause I strongly doubt VR has ever been done in any capacity close to how its being done now.

Just outta curiosity... have yu ever tried VR? Be it morpheus or OR. If yes, give us your opinions of the tech. If no, then you saying what you are saying sounds kinda ignorant. If no but you claim yes just to make a point? Then you are a very very very sad person.



generic-user-1 said:

and facebook isnt a real tech company, they dont have any outstanding tech,facebook as product isnt realy impressiv or won the race because its the best. they just dont have the knowhow. facebook is a one trick pony, not more.


They do have some pretty advanced database tech, query cache technology and high-availability technology. Just keeping their huge network available with almost no (full, not partial) downtime demands a lot of technology.

However, they aren't that innovative. Even in areas where they should keep pushing tech like parallel databases are mostly pushed forward by other companies like Google (Map-reduce is magical), MS, Oracle and open source projects like Postgres and non-relational DBs. But they did developed frameworks and worked with hardware drivers to improve their datacenter's performance. They just lag behind other tech companies of the same size or even smaller ones.