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by zeen 4283 days ago
Do it right how exactly? Oculus doesn't manufacture the hardware in question. Oculus is very much at the mercy of the smartphone display market. The only thing Oculus/Carmack can do is convince Samsung, and unless the change can impact the smartphone display market, Samsung is highly unlikely to be interested.

Unless you are suggesting Oculus get into the display manufacturing business? That's certainly interesting, but would probably add several years to their release timeline.
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CamperBob2 4282 days ago
Oculus is very much at the mercy of the smartphone display market.

At some point, normally before somebody spends $2 billion dollars, that stops being a valid excuse in the hardware business.

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pkroll 4282 days ago
About 1 billion smartphones shipped in 2013. $2 billion stops excuses for a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. Oculus will absolutely have to make due with the screens being made for phones.
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