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Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft

Posted by samzenpus on from the working-together dept.

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."

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  1. Wow by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It was great knowing you, Oculus.

    Hopefully Valve has a little more sense. They seem to have better hardware than Oculus.

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    1. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Certainly explains why they halted Linux and Mac OSX development

  2. Remember... by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Recall what M$ is known for; Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

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    1. Re:Remember... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm rooting for MS here. I hope they embrace the Oculus, extend into Facebook, and extinguish it all.