Oculus Rift

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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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Tin foil hat machine go!

Ceiling Facebook is watching you masturbate.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

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.

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How often do you Google (no one uses Bing) or post on Facebook about sodas or chips or whatever else may be sitting around that could be recognized and then advertised? There is no question that smartphones are a more valuable tool to compile data, but there are holes that cameras in houses can absolutely fill in.

edit: Interestingly, apparently there were rumors floating around GDC of Oculus VR being acquired, but the buyer wasn't Facebook. It almost had to be Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, right?

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

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.

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It bears mentioning that Cyanogenmod is the only mobile OS with robust privacy features. The issue stretches far beyond Apple or Google, it's every app you use.

Obviously. You can't eliminate the data collection, but you can limit it and have some control over who has access to it.

Anyway, I think Facebook's long game is probably AR, not VR, but it's becoming apparent that VR is going to take off first, and Facebook wants to pick a winning horse rather than play catch up later. I don't think tracking you head movements in Star Citizen offers a very compelling data set to Facebook, but once it means a camera strapped to your face that you walk around with, then they have something very valuable.

What, like Google Glass? Nobody likes that shit except king dorks.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

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.

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Wrong, biometric analytics is one of the key data points for the future. Being able to see how consumers react to content including ads is huge.

Google is already implementing this for Glass where they can see if a user is looking at an ad or not. The next range of consumer devices will contain more NUI and know more about you.

For consumers, this will become a battle between convenience and privacy.

Can anyone here please explain to me why you care if some company knows what brand of soda that you drink? I wish I only ever saw ads for shit I might actually like. If I never knew things like Wayans Brothers films and Hyundais existed I'd probably be happier. I'll gladly let Hulu know what I like so that the 15 commercials I see during every episode of whatever I watch on Hulu can all be for the WWE Network or video games.

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Originally Posted by Korly

Can anyone here please explain to me why you care if some company knows what brand of soda that you drink? I wish I only ever saw ads for shit I might actually like. If I never knew things like Wayans Brothers films and Hyundais existed I'd probably be happier. I'll gladly let Hulu know what I like so that the 15 commercials I see during every episode of whatever I watch on Hulu can all be for the WWE Network or video games.

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Skynet = Google