So I see a thread titled "Leak from investor. Rift is to be used for..............." great i'm gonna read what the Rift will really be used for from a leak from someone actually invested in the company so it should have some actual relevance to it rather than just being someones unfounded speculation.mayaman wrote:I'm trolling? Thats just stupid, who has time for that.
Yet in the post there is no mention of any actual leak from any actual investor in Oculus about what the rift will actually be used for let alone any reference to said information since it is non existant. Instead all I see is you regurgitating the same crap as in the other threads.
So how are you not trolling?
As others have said virtual storefronts are an inevitable evolution of VR. If Facebook and Oculus were non existant than guess what... we would still end up with virtual malls and advertising all over the place when VR goes mainstream. And what's wrong with that.. go into a real mall and there is advertising all over the place so what's wrong with it in a virtual mall.... and guess what again... just like you don't have to go into a real mall if you don't want to you don't have to use virtual malls with advertising in your face if you don't want to.
And yes there will likely be a Face Life or a Second Book created in all VR glory which as you postulate will also be full to the brim of adds in your face. But guess what again... you won't have to use it! just like you don't have to play Second Life now if you don't want to.
All these people going are on about ads everywhere in VR now.... well don't use the Facebook software or ad filled virtual stores or whatever if you don't want to put up with all the ads. I guess from a technical point it would be possible to make the rift so that anytime there is an internet connection available it would always connect to the Facebook servers and no matter what you are playing or doing would overlay ads in your face all the time but hey another guess what moment.... if they did then no one would use the damn thing and if no one's using it then hey they wont be selling any and making any money.
Yes there will be ads all over the place in VR but only in Facebook software and other software that the developer "choose" to implement it in, it's not going to be in everything you do just because Facebook are behind "one" of the VR HMDs that will be on the market in the near future. The only time you'll have ads in your face is if you "choose" to use something that puts ads in your face. Perhaps EA or other big publishing companies will end up putting ads in your face in their games as well which might piss you off cos its a game you like, but if they did do that then that has nothing to do with Facebook acquiring Oculus it's simply because "they" wanted to just like if they decided to do that to their games now.
I dislike Facebook almost as much as you do, but I think it might actually be good for Oculus considering all the resources they'll have available now, just as long as Facebook sticks to it's word and leaves Oculus to run itself how it wants like it has been and doesn't start butting their nose in making them do what they want.