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by Impossible 3515 days ago
It's even weirder that they've launched this platform completely separate from the Oculus platform. I understand the marketing reasons for this. Oculus has to not require a Facebook login, while Gameroom does, Oculus is VR only, etc. But you'd think maybe Gameroom could have Oculus support without too much blow back from Reddit?

Facebook seems to be following the time honored big tech company tradition of having different business units completely reinvent the wheel working on the same set of features in parallel for no good reason.

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Who would want to tarnish the Oculus brand with Facebook's "social" slot games?
And besides, Oclulus have done enough to tarnish the brand themselves anyway.
Seems like a solid incremental addition to oculus in another news cycle.