We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out[...] And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition. -Notch Today Facebook announced it was buying Oculus, which is basically the leader right now in trying to bring virtual reality to the consumer market. The thought of an unstable platform thats hostile to business, always enticing with a carrot and then hitting with a stick, one that is interested in data mining above all other things, in collecting your info and then selling it to advertisers (who are also getting jerked around, see previous sentence part), is a real bummer. Minecraft creator Notch wrote a long piece on this, with some good points about social and the VR medium..
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 01:35:36 +0000
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