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Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft
An anonymous reader writes: At its pre-E3 press conference today, Oculus announced a partnership with Microsoft. The company plans to launch a new Rift headset early next year that will be packaged with a wireless Xbox One controller. Oculus will ship the controllers with the recently announced Xbox wireless adapter. Xbox chief Phil Spencer said. "We believe we'll be able to create state of the art virtual reality experiences with the Oculus Rift on top of Windows."
Recall what M$ is known for; Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Certainly explains why they halted Linux and Mac OSX development
There is no company called Oculus. It's called Facebook. Facebook bought them. Microsoft is working with Facebook. WHAT?!
So besides that, everything MS touches dies. They can't design anything that customers want anymore and they turn everything into a money-grubbing, ad-infested, piece of garbage that they shove down users throats by abusing their monopoly. Oh now I get why they're working with Facebook.
It was painful to watch Microsoft intermission at the Oculus event today.
Hey so ah we're bundling an ordinary xbox controller with the rift... okay whatever I don't care except for having to pay for it with cost of the rift and your main competition offering a much better input tracking solution with their product.
Rest of the MS demo was someone wearing a VR headset and playing xbox in "VR" by creating a virtual room with a virtual 2D display and playing the game on that 2D display within the virtual world.. one of the sorriest tech demos I've ever seen in my life. I kept waiting for a punch line that never came.