Facebook is on a on a money-spending streak: last month it acquired WhatsApp and just today it has purchased Oculus VR, the company behind the successful Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift. Facebook has paid 2 billion US dollars for the company, and I am pretty sure that you could say that it makes it one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns ever. Mark Zuckerberg just announced the takeover on his personal Facebook page, something the founder of Facebook tends to do when Facebook makes a major takeover.
Although the company hasn’t released a product that is ready for the public yet, Facebook trusts that Oculus VR will deliver a final product that will amaze the world. Virtual reality has a big chance to become gaming’s next thing, or even its future and Mark Zuckerberg knows this very well. Zuckerberg states that Facebook will not interfere with the current developing process of the Oculus Rift for gaming, which I personally think is a very good thing to hear:
“Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate. The Rift is highly anticipated by the gaming community, and there's a lot of interest from developers in building for this platform. We're going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games. Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook to achieve this.”
Since Facebook is still a communication platform, Zuckerberg also looks at the Oculus Rift as a communication device, as he describes it as a “new communication device”. Facebook has a lot of funds to support the development of the Oculus Rift, and this will most likely result in a better product with more features, but it's unsure if Facebook has different ideas about the Oculus Rift than the creators had in mind. I just hope that Facebook won't interfere too much with what the creators want from the device.
With Sony also announcing their own virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4, virtual reality is closer than ever before. Although PlayStation’s virtual reality headset, code-named Morpheus, won’t be coming on the market anytime soon, it’s a fact that virtual reality will become something for the masses. It will take some time for it to become perfect, but that time is well worth it.
A lot of backers of the original Kickstarter campaign aren't too happy about the takeover of Oculus VR. They feel betrayed by Oculus VR and think that Facebook won't do any good to the Oculus Rift.
Did Zuckerberg buy himself another golden ticket to success once again? He probably did. Zuckerberg also stated that he cannot wait on virtual reality becoming .. well, reality. And neither can’t I!
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