Senior Valve VR employee joins Oculus despite Facebook deal

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Despite the outrage from overly dramatic internet naysayers regarding the recent acquisition of Oculus by Facebook a senior Valve VR employee, Michael Abrash, has jumped ship to join Oculus as their chief scientist. During his time at Valve he assisted in spearheading their VR development as the company's head of research and development and has commented he believes that with Facebook bankrolling Oculus they will be able to "push VR as far as it can go"

Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR – and some of them are hard indeed.

I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can. It’s great to be working with John [Carmack] again after all these years, this time, we're working on technology that will change not just computer gaming, but potentially how all of us interact with computers, information, and each other every day.

I think it’s going to be the biggest game-changer I’ve ever seen – and I've seen quite a lot over the last 57 years.


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AgesPosted:

Wow I don't think I will buy this. Seems like a waste of money.

TravitorPosted:

Invictus I heard about this before.
Just never really interested me.


how did you hear about this before? it was announced yesterday

InvictusPosted:

I heard about this before.
Just never really interested me.

Evo8Posted:

I will probably never buy a VR headset.

WavelengthPosted:

I don't see the Oculus doing Facebook any good.

JoveticPosted:

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daRealRush I wanna see the headset now. Hopefully it's close to being finished. I mean, I don't want them to rush it out, and everything be a complete mess.


https://www.oculusvr.com/order/

You didn't even look on their site, did you?


Wasn't the final product supposed to be out last Q4? What the hell happened to that? All we have now is developers kits which are pretty much beta products.

YopPosted:

I heard about this less then a month ago, probably gonna cost a fortune.

AimiPosted:

I Honestly think facebook will do nothing good

EverPosted:

JRJ
Aloe I Honestly think facebook will do nothing good


Yeah I personally think they are just going down farther and farther. They'll hit the ground pretty soon I think.


In a few years if they don't do something good, they'll drop.

UnevenPosted:

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daRealRush I wanna see the headset now. Hopefully it's close to being finished. I mean, I don't want them to rush it out, and everything be a complete mess.


https://www.oculusvr.com/order/

You didn't even look on their site, did you?


He probably didn't, he is just posting to get the badge... and I hate the idea of Facebook buying everything :P


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