Facebook has purchased VR gaming compay Oculus for $2 billion
http://t.co/ogrNiR5laR
congrats, cmoney
i'd also like to publicly apologize to srslysirius & ask that cmoney put us both in the one drop
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http://www.cnet.com/news/what-does-t...r-kickstarter/
Interesting read about how they used funding from Kickstarter to get going then sell out. I noticed on Twitter yesterday that there are a lot of people who bought in that are pissed about them selling to Facebook. This is almost as bad as selling off your bitcoins at $10 given that the Kickstarter investors(proper term?) get nothing and the Oculus execs are golden.
What did they think was going to happen? Successful startups are often purchased. Kickstarter guarantees its backers nothing. Some companies promise they'll ship you the item they're developing for free but that's usually it. Backers have no say in anything and own none of it. What the fuck are they complaining about.
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I'm with you on that one. The biggest bitching point that I seem to be seeing is that the nerd community is mad because they sold to Facebook. I guess somehow they thought that the tech would stay in the realm of indie developers and not go to a company that they despise(for whatever reason). It's kinda like how a lot of people freaked out when Microsoft bought out Skype.
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