IM PLAYIN takes a look at the recent acquisition of the Oculus Rift by Facebook and asks if it has now doomed the VR tech.
"There’s a strong possibility that it will become some sort of ‘social media’ monstrosity, where you can see your Facebook timeline in Virtual Reality (God know why that would be appealing). Perhaps they will bring back the old ‘poke’ system, but allow you to run up to your friends avatar in a VR Facebook Matrix world and punch them in the face … who knows. All I know is that, if they were to take that path, it would be a horrendous waste of the Oculus Rift’s potential. If there’s one thing that I do know about Facebook, however, it’s that the guys behind it aren’t stupid and they know how to make a buck or two. They will know that using the Rift as a Facebook add-on wouldn’t make them any money, it probably wouldn’t even make back the $2 billion they spent buying it in the first place. Nope, Facebook will have bigger plans for the Oculus Rift than that."
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That's fine. GT7 would overshadow it anyway at it has open wheel and regular cars.
Should have been spending their time updating Squadrons with better resolution, frame rate, haptics, etc as there isn't a game like that on PS VR 2 yet.
But it's EA. They don't think.
A wasted opportunity, but I don't buy EA / Codemasters stuff anyway. Grid Legends just came out on Plus and I haven't touched it. Why would I when I have GT7 and PSVR2?
That's where opportunity presents itself that they could offer something else that other developers haven't offered yet. Yeah. There's No Man's Sky. But a space game with a story would be great. Like the old days with Colony Wars.
Exactly, they could have possibly lured more players just from the inclusion of a vr mode.
I miss Colony wars and G-Police, Low-Fi I hope will scratch that itch when it releases. We also need a vr War/Starhawk game.
They used to say that any press was good press. I think that XBone proved that maxim to be dead wrong. This is bad.
If Zuckerberg can spin it and show what amazing tech it will be and show it as a gaming system, then it might do well, as a product. If not, it will not. No one wanted to play mobile games on their TVs, Ouya.
Now, no one will want to play Mafia Wars on VR.
It isn't a good thing to have bad press. Especially about this.
M$ was behind FB's OR's acquisition. Believe it or not.
Just like with Kinect, (PrimeSense approached Sony first but they got denied) http://n4g.com/news/569064/...
M$ invest on what is trends because they lack the creativity & originality to innovate.
Oculus Rift on the hands of FB & M$ is Kinect Milo Natal 3.0 in the making.
First Wii U is DOOMED! Then it's XBONE that is DOOMED! Now Oculus rift is DOOMED!!! DOOMED!!!!
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The short answer is no.