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Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio (bbc.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the virtually-gone dept.

puddingebola writes: Facebook has closed Oculus VR Studio. The studio was a maker of original VR films, but now will only assist other studios. This makes it official, as the studio had been shuttered since the departure of Palmer Luckey.
In a blog post the company emphasized that "We're still absolutely committed to growing the VR film and creative content ecosystem."

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  1. VR is like 3D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will be gone in a few years. Fads never last.

    1. Re:VR is like 3D by 0123456 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "As it is I think it could be good for movies, assuming it made economic sense - which it probably doesn't - but for gaming, just no"

      VR is already rapidly taking over the sim market. Once you've played a flight sim or driving sim in VR, it's really hard to go back to a flat screen.

      And it's going to spread to more and more gaming markets from there.