Oculus Co-founder is Leaving Facebook After Cancellation of 'Rift 2' Headset (techcrunch.com)

Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, announced today that he is leaving Facebook. From a report: Iribe is leaving Facebook following some internal shake-ups in the company's virtual reality arm last week that saw the cancellation of the company's next generation "Rift 2" PC-powered virtual reality headset, which he had been leading development of, a source close to the matter told TechCrunch. Iribe and the Facebook executive team had "fundamentally different views on the future of Oculus that grew deeper over time," and Iribe wasn't interested in a "race to the bottom" in terms of performance, we are told.

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Re: Should have thought of that before selling to

[Anonymous Coward]

The Zuck only wanted the technology platform as a means to program zombies and NPCs with more propaganda beyond the FB app txt app. Enhanced gaming?? Yeah, no, that's someone else's chicken to fuck. Not having it at FB

Re:What's that word

[Luckyo]

No, it means that high performance VR loses as a whole. Oculus, for all its problems, funded a lot of software development for high performance VR. With them refocusing on crippled low power VR instead, that's even less resources in the niche of high performance VR, and it's a niche that is already suffering severely from lack of software.

Re:What's that word

[HornWumpus]

It means they got a good look at a 2080 GPU and cold harsh reality sank in.

A single 2080 can't drive a 4K HDR at 90Hz, so if they built the obvious upgrade for a Rift, it was going to render at lower resolution anyhow, for _years_.

Asking users to install two 1k$ graphics cards takes the whole deal out of mass market. Makes money only for Nvidia. Will still likely only render relatively simple scenes.

Someone will succeed on small scale. Price will be kilobucks.

Porn is key, as with any new media. Cheap VR is good enough for VR video.