Facebook buys Oculus for $2 Billion

[Arnox]

Keep bawling child; perhaps someone will bother to pay attention to it one day....... and don't think I was trying to "own" you. I wouldn't lower myself to "own" someone who can't understand simple logic and then has to come back with insults.

You're an intellectual cripple; a fucking total waste of good bandwidth.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

I'm only going to say once, guys. Stop.

There is a lot more to making a good VR headset, than simply having a good screen. Oculus and Valve have done a ton of research into sensor fusion and motion control. You really want to move the latency below 20ms, and that is an incredibly difficult task to accomplish. Oculus has done a lot of ground work, involving the streamlining of different graphics engines' rendering pipelines, such as Source, Unreal Engine, Unity, CryTek and others. Carmack and Abrash is a huge part of this.

The reality is that screen tech was not quite there yet. Sony has been experimenting with this for three years, but it's now that they decided they can talk about it.

Sure, getting in the rendering pipeline is fine and all. But everyone benefits from any advances the Rift has made on that.

SONY's headset is not meant as a competitor to the Rift. It exists on its platform, and the OR exists on its platform. In my opinion there's barely any customer crossover. Considering the technicalities behind driving a good VR experience, I cannot imagine Morpheus delivering anything special. The PS4 is simply too weak.

It would be foolish to assume that the Morpheus won't be working on PCs. If Sony doesn't support it, other people likely will build software that mimics the Oculus.

The point is, the Morpheus looks and acts like a consumer product. It looks like a product people would buy. The Rift simply doesn't right now and who knows if it ever will.

 

[Manticore]

The point is, the Morpheus looks and acts like a consumer product. It looks like a product people would buy. The Rift simply doesn't right now and who knows if it ever will.

Yeah; it's not difficult to have your point proven for you.

 

[Rambowjo]

Well, nobody knows what the final version of the Rift is going to look like.
This image is pretty popular, but ultimately it's just a render, and I very much doubt the Rift will end up looking like it.