If I just made $2 billion, the last thing I’d be doing is defending the sale—I’d be knee-deep in Heineken bottles.
Oculus defends sale to Facebook
If I just made $2 billion, the last thing I’d be doing is defending the sale—I’d be knee-deep in Heineken bottles.
“Why would we want to sell to someone like (Microsoft) or Apple?” he asked. “So they can tear the company apart and use the pieces to build out their own vision of virtual reality, one that fits whatever current strategy they have? Not a chance.”
Is this guy clueless? Facebook will do the same thing as Microsoft/Apple. I believe Microsoft/Sony/Apple would have made better landing spots. But I don’t blame him, I would sell my company for $2 billion in a heartbeat.
I guess he needs those bottles for drowning his doubts – but, alas, it’s too late.
Bullshit.
You’d be beard-deep in Heineken kegs.
I think Apple had no interest in buying Oculus because Apple is closer to delivering a workable VR headset than Oculus.
Think about the technology needed: High resolution displays? Check. Precise motion tracking? Check. Good battery life and power management? Check. High speed wireless communication? Check.
Apple has all the parts to make an exceptional 3D VR headset if they want to. Today.
I’m only mildly curious to know what promises Zuckerberg may have made Oculus. I’d rather just wait and see Google do foolish things with it.
Yes, it is a crazy thing to say, because all the companies have strategies, but at least Apple’s strategy would be a hardware strategy, and you could be confident that it would just work, and it would be instantly compatible with over 500 million iOS devices as well as with Macs that run STEAM.
I agree — Apple probably didn’t want them.
Zuckerberg gave a long speech about this during which he sounded like he had drunk the Oculus Rift Kool-Aid.
The thing with VR is — didn’t we just implement it in the real world? Once you have wireless Web and an iPad/iPhone, most of the things you were going to do with VR are just done in real life.
You used to see examples of “future VR” where people were “walking around the Web” and screens would just appear in front of them with maps on them or whatever. Why would I want to travel around a virtual world when traveling around the real world is already one of the largest chores we have?
That’s why I think VR is going to be almost purely for gaming and sex. So maybe Facebook is right to buy Oculus Rift since Facebook was started as a way to hookup with girls.