Facebook acquired Oculus Rift for $2 billion

[Rico]

Sony has $151 billion in assets, that's more than Microsoft and Google. Facebook isn't even close to any of those three and damn sure can't buy it. I swear, dudes underestimate how big of a company Sony really is (which is part of their ongoing financial problems, but that's another story)

Word how much do they have in liabilities then? Sony isn't worth anywhere near 151 Billion. Not sure where you got that from.

http://www.forbes.com/companies/sony/

http://www.forbes.com/companies/facebook/

 

[Malta]

It's still limited in the gaming space. You see Facebook plans to take it well beyond gaming. That's how they'll really make money IF it catches on.

Uh, didn't I say VR's reach would extend beyond gaming?

You were just so hard pressed to find faults in what is clearly a hot piece of tech

 

[Rico]

Word how much do they have in liabilities then? Sony isn't worth anywhere near 151 Billion. Not sure where you got that from.

http://www.forbes.com/companies/sony/

http://www.forbes.com/companies/facebook/

Oh wait I see where ... from here.

 

[JetLife]

The big takeaway is Kickstarter is the greatest come-up in terms of raising a seed round of funds where you owe 0% of equity to your first funders.

Oculus, Zach Braff, etc. eatin' real good off the common people's fandom. Millionaires asking 50k/year folks for funds and these people hand them their money like it's nothing.

 

[Malta]

The big takeaway is Kickstarter is the greatest come-up in terms of raising a seed round of funds where you owe 0% of equity to your first funders.

Oculus, Zach Braff, etc. eatin' real good off the common people's fandom. Millionaires asking 50k/year folks for funds and these people hand them their money like it's nothing.

Yeah, this is a bad look for kickstarters.

 

[duncanthetall]

Creator of Minecraft wants no part of this.
.

Kinda wanna agree. After these motherfukkers changed my acct settings and my shyt was public for almost a year, I fukk with facebook very little.

 

[duncanthetall]

The big takeaway is Kickstarter is the greatest come-up in terms of raising a seed round of funds where you owe 0% of equity to your first funders.

Oculus, Zach Braff, etc. eatin' real good off the common people's fandom. Millionaires asking 50k/year folks for funds and these people hand them their money like it's nothing.

Real shyt. I know another guy on another forum who was a heavy backer of this shyt, and dude is not fukking happy right now. I mean....goddamn. Not cool. FB doesn't owe those donors jack shyt, I'm assuming.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Word how much do they have in liabilities then? Sony isn't worth anywhere near 151 Billion. Not sure where you got that from.

http://www.forbes.com/companies/sony/

http://www.forbes.com/companies/facebook/

He didn't say they worth that much he said that's how much they have in assets which am not sure why that matters when it comes to buying power Google, FB and MS have more cash on hand which is what matters

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Uh, didn't I say VR's reach would extend beyond gaming?

You were just so hard pressed to find faults in what is clearly a hot piece of tech

Hot piece of tech =/= successful piece of tech

If anything this acquisition makes the challenge more difficult.

Before OR could have sold just a couple million units and been very succesful. Now with $2b and Facbook behind them they have to sell a lot more.

 

[Momentum]

The big takeaway is Kickstarter is the greatest come-up in terms of raising a seed round of funds where you owe 0% of equity to your first funders.

Oculus, Zach Braff, etc. eatin' real good off the common people's fandom. Millionaires asking 50k/year folks for funds and these people hand them their money like it's nothing.

 

[duncanthetall]

....

 

[Lord Scion]

I never said Sony had that much money, I know they struggling. All I was saying is that all their assets (all the industries/companies/properties that fall under them) are worth a grip. And a company like FB can't blatantly buy a larger company like Sony. Microsoft, Google and Apple... more than likely, they all have crazy cash reserves, but not Facebook.

Anyway, this is going to probably turn into a stan war if I don't stop. Back to the subject.

*dead* @ reddit astroturfers

 

[Rekkapryde]

Looks like Devs are already flocking to Dat Morpheus.....

N4O stay

 

[Rico]

I think this tech sounds good but its a ways away.

 

[satam55]

Meanwhile At Sony's Morpheus R&D center: