[psbp]

"Zuckerberg explained that he felt that Oculus represented an entirely new post-PC and post-mobile platform."

He's probably right. While Google and others are focusing on half-baked wearables as their key to the future, facebook just bought a huge chunk of the most likely successor.

[Oculus]

Ironically, gathered from reading the initial reactions of early adopters, I think they just destroyed the chances of Oculus succeeding.

[joshmlewis]

Is your name a coincidence?

[Oculus]

Yeah, I just like the name :)

[kailuowang]

You sound like Oculus owns some really valuable technology (they clearly don't own a 2B user base yet). But did sony spend $2B for R&D in their VR project? I doubt so.

[dangerlibrary]

Facebook spent 400m and 1.6b of overvalued stock.

[aviraldg]

Wrong. Google knows that there's immense potential in VR. It's just too early for them to get into it yet. The pushback from privacy advocates would kill any potential project.

[meowface]

How do we know they're not already working on it as a covert project?

[IBM]

Because that's not their M.O.

They like getting the PR value out of all of their projects even if it isn't commercially viable.

[GuiA]

I would be very, very surprised if there weren't a few window-less rooms in Cupertino with prototype HMDs bolted to tables in them :)

[RandallBrown]

It makes "real" social interaction live in the virtual world.

[ctdonath]

Thing is, Google is pursuing wearables as pursuant to its core competency: data mining. What does VR have to do with Facebook's core competency?

[zorpner]

Eye tracking.