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So any ideas on when 1.2.8 will be released?

You guys win,I give up lol

I dont recall my chess club generating Billions of dollars,Frankly I dont recall any MMORPG or any game in history generating or even remotely coming close to the money Wow has made.As a matter of fact no movie in history has generated more money than Wow. They have received at LEAST 10 billion is sales from it. I'd call that changing the way games are played.

World of Warcraft is a combination of both,the social aspect made it what it is,it completely changed the face of gaming. In the end they HAVE to make a killer product and sell millions of them or Facebook is out of 2 billion dollars. You dont become a billionaire my making foolish decisions.

You have a good point hansangb,I almost flipped when I saw the announcement but I have since cooled down. After listening to the conference call it actually turns out that Facebook wanted to start their own VR company but when they looked into hiring people they found out Oculus had already snatched up all the best VR people. They also said that Oculus is so far ahead of everyone else and that the easiest solution was to buy them instead of starting from scratch. So maybe Oculus has more pull in this deal than we know about. Also if Facebook was offering 2 billion,I bet others were offering also,maybe even Sony or Microsoft.

On that same conference call they also said that they think Oculus is worth a lot more than 2 billion just from game development alone. You guys are being purposefully short sighted. Facebook bought them for one reason,to make a ton of money and I'm ok with that as long as I get a great product. I'm sure there will be a VR app that lets you browse the web or go to a VR Marketplace or log into facebook on the rift and has advertising,but you DONT HAVE to use that app!!

Sorry you feel that way,I've been following the rift since day one. The reason I follow it is because I feel they have the best chance of putting out good VR first. The Facebook acquisition doesnt change that,it accelerates it.

I can guarantee you that guy will eat those words. Oculus did not have the money to make what they wanted to make in the timeframe they wanted to make it. I'll bet money Oculus has a super secret prototype that blew away Zuckerberg and he threw his wallet at them. Have some faith guys;)

Facebook and Oculus had a conference call tonight,here is the recording for those interested.http://www.shareholder.com/visitors/event/build3/stage/stage.cfm?mediaid=63723&mediauserid=0

For all we know Gabe gave his blessing on this acquisition,and since Steam will be selling VR games they will benefit as well. Also I think this will force Microsoft and Google into the mix also. I think we have a full blown VR war coming and that can only be good news for us!!

Speaking of boat tons of cash,DCS better hurry up with more modules,this could be a serious cash cow for them!!!

I think all the negative comments are from fanboy's (myself included)being heartbroken that they sold to facebook. They will get over it in time. After I calmed down I think this is definitely in the best interests of VR. Who wont take Oculus seriously now? Also the PRESSURE to put out a killer product is even greater,you dont get 2 billion dollars to put out something that is garbage. Now people like NVidia and ATI will have to kick it into overdrive to make more powerful graphics cards cheaper if they want a part of the billions of dollars facebook will make from this.I think this gives Oculus the time and resources to put out a much better product than they would have without facebook's support.

I think they got 450 million in cash

I would have been all over that lol. But the cat is out of the bag now

Holy Crap!!! I'm not sure how I feel about this,any thoughts??

Dont worry,from what I understand the invoice numbers are scrambled so the number doesnt mean much.

So now that the cat is out of the bag about DK2,I wonder if the kits ED and Wags have been using the past month or so are DK2?

And I'm getting a 2500 dollar guitar this week,so there you forced my confession,I dont have enough spare funds to get both lol

I dont know if they will have a better screen but I do know that DK2 is 75hz while the minimum for CV1 is supposed to be 90 or higher.

I have the DK1 and as badly as I want to get DK2 I'm going to pass. Like most of you I have been following Oculus since the beginning. I think I predicted somewhere on these forums that we would see DK2 in June/July and that they would be backlogged from hell on orders.So realistically I'm thinking most of you wont receive them until Sept/Oct and I'm thinking CV1 comes out in November. You heard it here first lol.

With the way maps are working out currently,I would take a Map of Disney World.

I think that is just some guy using Vorpx software for the Rift,native support will be much better and ED is working on that now.

I can see the F-4,but I think the hint he was dropping was a possible Marine aircraft which would rule out the F-5. Also it cant be the F-18 or Harrier because they are taken. So I'll go ahead and tell you what it is.....AH-1Z Cobra/Viper,you heard it here first!!!! Relax,wishful thinking on my part.

Dont tease!!!!! lol

Congrats on getting things worked out guys,but I gotta say Leatherneck is a terrible name. A company named after US Marines but your first few aircraft will be Russian?