Minecraft Creator Halts Plans For Oculus Version Following Facebook Acquisition 300
An anonymous reader writes "Not one hour after the announcement of the the acquisition of Oculus Rift by Facebook yesterday, Markus 'Notch' Persson has announced that he has ceased all discussions about bringing it to Oculus Rift. 'I don't want to work with social, I want to work with games. ... Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers. People have made games for Facebook platforms before, and while it worked great for a while, they were stuck in a very unfortunate position when Facebook eventually changed the platform to better fit the social experience they were trying to build.' Persson has stated that he made this decision despite initially investing $10,000 in Oculus' Kickstarter."
Re:Unsurprising ... (Score:5, Informative)
karmack has some rumblings about leaving as well.
Real advances for Occolus are dwindling. Zuck should have invested under his secret investment firm, "Evil Acquisitions inc."
Carmack has already tweeted that he is not leaving.
Carmack fully supports the move (Score:5, Informative)
Carmack (the fact you can't spell him name right ames me dubious you understand his intent) said this on Twitter [twitter.com]:
I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale.
If you want to understand what he means, read Ready Player One [amazon.com].
The Mod still works (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Unsurprising ... (Score:5, Informative)
Huh, that was exactly my reaction too. Odd how I read that IBM/MIcrosoft/Facebook/Oracle bought another tech company the first reaction I get is exactly this.
Interestingly when I hear that Google bought a company I don't get this reaction (yet).
Also where is Carmack? If he is still with Oculus then there might be some hope. But if they sold out without his vote, well there is something very wrong. John Carmack has being know to be someone uncompromising when it comes to tech.
Re:"What?" yelled Occulus founders (Score:3, Informative)
What does that have to do with people who don't prioritize money over everything?