Oculus Rift

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Originally Posted by CNET

Today, Oculus VR released the Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2. Known as DK2, it offers a number of advances over the first developer kit, released a year ago. Among them is "precise, low-latency positional head tracking using an external camera that allows you to move with 6-degrees-of-freedom and opens up all sorts of new gameplay opportunities like peering around corners, leaning in to get a closer look at objects in the world, and kicking back on a virtual beach," according to Oculus VR.

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Facebook doesn't have to make any changes. Oculus already included what Facebook wants in DK2.

Notch has an opinion-

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Originally Posted by notch

...I don’t want to work with social, I want to work with games.

Fortunately, the rise of Oculus coincided with competitors emerging. None of them are perfect, but competition is a very good thing. If this means there will be more competition, and VR keeps getting better, I am going to be a very happy boy. I definitely want to be a part of VR, but I will not work with Facebook. Their motives are too unclear and shifting, and they haven’t historically been a stable platform. There’s nothing about their history that makes me trust them, and that makes them seem creepy to me.

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Seems right to me.

James

Come on, James. What could possibly go wrong with giving a company that stealthily changes their privacy policies access to a camera in your house?

So the questions are going to be- does the Facebook program come integrated into the hardware, or is it a separate download that you can choose to get if you want? Does the driver software phone home? And if the answers are what we want to hear, why on earth would we believe them? They're coming from Facebook.

James

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Originally Posted by Type Ryan

They're just trying to keep up with Google.

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This is what I think it is. Facebook has too much money,doesn't really have a directly integrated interest in them but does see it as the next big tech thing so "hey lets throw money at it!"

The idea that they just want to get a camera in our house to spy on us is ludicrous.

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Originally Posted by FirstBlood

The idea that they just want to get a camera in our house to spy on us is ludicrous.

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I could not imagine how horrible it would be if Facebook knew what I looked like or what I was doing.

In lieu of Facebook no Minecraft for you.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Come on, James. What could possibly go wrong with giving a company that stealthily changes their privacy policies access to a camera in your house?

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Think this through. Your smartphone gives way more info to these companies than a camera can.

I completely agree. That's why I don't have an Android phone. At least Apple isn't primarily in the business of data collection and ad selling. Google is, and so is Facebook.

I think my general point is that Facebook can't gain a lot from a camera that people don't willingly post on the service already. There's nothing Microsoft would learn from watching someone's Kinect feed that they couldn't glean from their Bing searches, or just collating what people buy on XBL.