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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DeadMousePosted:

-Tupac Facebook is horrible now, just full of videos and depressing status's.


I agree, facebook is pretty bad...

AR15Posted:

-Tupac
Invictus
Churro- Facebook is the new Yahoo. By doing this deal, they've not only hurt themselves, but they lost the business of the core market that existed for the oculus before.


Facebook is buying everything now I've noticed.
Along with google,


They have money. Buying more stuff will make the net worth a lot higher.


Just what they need...more money xD

ZipsPosted:

Carbonite Facebook came along and totally f*cked everything up


I agree. Facebook used to be good, i dont even go on it now, full of everyone saying the same things day in, day out.

MajPosted:

Facebook came along and totally f*cked everything up

DanimalsPosted:

Yop
Pin I'm glad Facebook bought Oculus Rift. I can now get my Farmville and Mafia Wars notifications when i'm in a steam game! *sarc*


Lol, thank god you added the *sarc*. Cause i was like wtf?


lol i was gonna say the same thing when i read that

YopPosted:

Pin I'm glad Facebook bought Oculus Rift. I can now get my Farmville and Mafia Wars notifications when i'm in a steam game! *sarc*


Lol, thank god you added the *sarc*. Cause i was like wtf?

PinPosted:

I'm glad Facebook bought Oculus Rift. I can now get my Farmville and Mafia Wars notifications when i'm in a steam game! *sarc*

El_Shaarawy_Posted:

I was donecwith facebook ages ago this pointless

InvictusPosted:

Churro- Facebook is the new Yahoo. By doing this deal, they've not only hurt themselves, but they lost the business of the core market that existed for the oculus before.


Facebook is buying everything now I've noticed.
Along with google,

InvictusPosted:

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


Nor do I but we'll just have to wait and find out what happens in the future.