Is Android still the future of Oculus Rift.
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:51 am
Hi,
Just curious about something.
It seems like there is a Mexican Standoff looming between Facebook, Samsung and Google.
It is well known that Samsung wants to get away from Google in the advertising revenue stream it should be making from its mobile phones.
Yet Google owns the Android operating system which Oculus is being strapped to.
Samsung and Facebook are now tied up indirectly through Oculus and Gear VR.
So what is going to break first.
If Samsung ports its mobile phones to its own operating system Tizen will that fragment its Android customers, and by default Oculus Rift and its developers.
Also Google may eventually develop its own VR hardware beyond Google Cardboard.
And what happens if Google changes something in its operating system that stuffs the Oculus Rift software. Can that happen? It has happened in other businesses. (Emagin and Nvidia anyone)
Anyway, it probably won't happen.
Thanks.
Just curious about something.
It seems like there is a Mexican Standoff looming between Facebook, Samsung and Google.
It is well known that Samsung wants to get away from Google in the advertising revenue stream it should be making from its mobile phones.
Yet Google owns the Android operating system which Oculus is being strapped to.
Samsung and Facebook are now tied up indirectly through Oculus and Gear VR.
So what is going to break first.
If Samsung ports its mobile phones to its own operating system Tizen will that fragment its Android customers, and by default Oculus Rift and its developers.
Also Google may eventually develop its own VR hardware beyond Google Cardboard.
And what happens if Google changes something in its operating system that stuffs the Oculus Rift software. Can that happen? It has happened in other businesses. (Emagin and Nvidia anyone)
Anyway, it probably won't happen.
Thanks.