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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 cervesaebraciator · · Score: 2

      Your tautology is circular. If it lasted, you wouldn't call it a fad.

    2. 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.

    3. Re:VR is like 3D by 0123456 · · Score: 2

      "That's why most of the "AAA" VR games coming out seem to be nothing more than first person shooters where the player is glued to a single spot and cannot freely walk around, which is gay."

      No, it's because most devs are too scared of players getting sick to let them move around with a joystick. It's as though the early FPS devs had listened to the people who complained that FPS games made them sick, and switched to games where the player stood in one spot while the bad guys ran toward them.

      Fortunately that's changing, as it turns out that it affects fewer people than the alarmists claimed, and there are ways of optimizing movement to reduce the effect on those who feel it (for example, by only using the joystick for forward/backward motion and turning for real).

  2. Does this mean HTC "Won"? by Pezbian · · Score: 2

    I bought a Vive because the idea of Faceculus Riftbook was unappealing. The Oculus Touch controllers are definitely the better of the two on grip, alone.

    This is not good. Every Microsoft needs an Apple and every FedEx needs a UPS. Competition is the only way to keep moving forward.

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