Senior Valve VR employee joins Oculus despite Facebook deal

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Despite the outrage from overly dramatic internet naysayers regarding the recent acquisition of Oculus by Facebook a senior Valve VR employee, Michael Abrash, has jumped ship to join Oculus as their chief scientist. During his time at Valve he assisted in spearheading their VR development as the company's head of research and development and has commented he believes that with Facebook bankrolling Oculus they will be able to "push VR as far as it can go"

Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR – and some of them are hard indeed.

I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can. It’s great to be working with John [Carmack] again after all these years, this time, we're working on technology that will change not just computer gaming, but potentially how all of us interact with computers, information, and each other every day.

I think it’s going to be the biggest game-changer I’ve ever seen – and I've seen quite a lot over the last 57 years.


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KatsumiChanPosted:

GUYS

You can now FARM IN VIRTUAL REALITY!

Woo.

Harvest those crops in true 3d I mean 4d.

#FarmReality

Churro-Posted:

Facebook is the new Yahoo. By doing this deal, they've not only hurt themselves, but they lost the business of the core market that existed for the oculus before.

InvictusPosted:

Kopa they are probs going to get money hungry.


Yea I agree that that's what most likely will happen.

InvictusPosted:

Murica
JRJ
Aloe I Honestly think facebook will do nothing good


Yeah I personally think they are just going down farther and farther. They'll hit the ground pretty soon I think.


In a few years if they don't do something good, they'll drop.


Facebook is buying everything now a days.

YopPosted:

Event Facebook is done. The new layout in my opinion is terrible. So personally I won't be buying this or even considering it...


Yeah, I have to agree with you.

SuisPosted:

Ashamed I don't understand why people are joining Oculus all of the sudden.

What is so good about it?


honestly nothing is good about it, why do you think they sold it? they got billions of dollars and ran.

AshamedPosted:

I don't understand why people are joining Oculus all of the sudden.

What is so good about it?

EventPosted:

Facebook is done. The new layout in my opinion is terrible. So personally I won't be buying this or even considering it...

YopPosted:

VIT
Invictus I heard about this before.
Just never really interested me.


how did you hear about this before? it was announced yesterday


Fox news announced it this a week ago and did a demonstration.

VEVOPosted:

VIT
Invictus I heard about this before.
Just never really interested me.


how did you hear about this before? it was announced yesterday


Assuming he's referring to the Oculus itself and and not reading any of the article rather just the title...


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