Even though GDC is in full force this week, the App Store release cycle doesn’t show any signs of letting up. While there’s fewer games on our radar this morning for a US release at 11:00 PM Eastern tonight, there’s still some great looking ones. We’re super excited for Star Horizon.
Here’s the rest of the games on our radar right now, which will undoubtedly grow as the day goes on:
Facebook has decided to poison everything cool for the next decade or what?
Seems like it
Well it's not like he has a history of taking other people's ideas....oh wait.......
If you kickstarted Oculus in 2012 when they got $2.5 millions, now you got yourself an old VR headset.
If you could have invested in Oculus at the same time, you could have make 250.000$
(maybe not as much but at leat 100 times your money)
It's strange -- you'd think Kickstarter supporters could have some legal claim to those billions.
Like 1% split among all kickstarters?
This is great news!
Wait, no... this is awful.
Yes, it's awful.
Expand beyond gaming?! How could such technology ever be used for something other than gaming?
Virtual tourism could be a good use of VR.
And now we'll get virtual high school reunion every day for the rest of our lives!
this would make "google street view vacations" considerably more interesting...
I guess you never heard of the meta verse, or any vr fiction.
pr0n
Great, another tool FB can use to pry into our lives and monitor everything we do.
And this is why I am not into VR.
Facebook doing the most and achieving the least, look at how messy their website is now, the app on iOS is an abomination!
Wow, that just pretty much ruined it for me. Yet another reason to hate facebook.
Well, I don't have a Facebook account and never have. I liked the looks of the new vr headset and was really hoping to try one one day, now not so much. I want nothing to do with Facebook so here's hoping for a new up and comer in the field!
My wife has no Facebook and my teenage daughter also has no Facebook, we just have no desire to share things and be "in contact" with a ton of people. Here we are, all owning tablets of various brands, iPhones and android phones, macs and windows laptops and desktops, and not a Facebook account among us lol.
Wow. A round of applause for you people. You deserve it!
I have an answer for you: project morpheus, for ps4.
Anyway, you pretty much described mine and my wife's approach to Facebook so, cheers.
On the money my bro, I'll catch ya then ;) #PS4
The Kickstarter backers deserve a cut of that 2 billion, but of course they won't get a cent from Facebook.
With Kickstarter, the consumer gets all the risk and none of the potential profit an investor expects.
That's the now obvious and huge difference between a kickstarter backer and an investor.
Not saying it's a bad model, but I'm not sure everybody understood this discrepancy.
Please, learn the difference between reward-based crowdfunding and equity-based crowdfunding (look it up on the Wikipedia).
People who backed got exactly what they payed for, and are not entitled to anything else.
But at the same time Oculus VR likely wouldn't exist without the help of those who kickstarted it, that money was meant to go onwards the production of devices, not making the company an attractive option for purchase. As Notch said - "And I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition." puts it perfectly. If someone lent me a pound to buy a lottery ticket and it won, I - while under no legal obligation to do so - would feel morally obliged to share that wealth. If I kickstart the production of a recorded album (which I've done many times and received "producer" credit as a result) - and that album went "Sgt Pepper" big - would it be beyond reason to the have my faith and help rewarded by anyone with a shred of moral fibre?
Pls don't fb :(
Note to self: never Kickstart anything ever.
What happened to start-ups sticking it out? Will we ever get another Apple if all small companies are just looking for a big buyout? Did Sony scare them that badly? Imagine how many decades the consumer electronics industry would have been set back if Jobs had given in to IBM pressure back in the day.
It's as if Elon Musk is the only one willing to stand behind a good idea these days.
Nothing wrong with Kickstarting stuff. Don't confuse massive buy-outs with merits of crowd funding!
Horrible news FaceBook is just the worst >:(
Seriously? No april fool's?
I got rid of my Facebook account years ago as soon as they started playing around with your security, so glad I did, I hate the fact they sell all your details and let underhand corporations search your profiles like if you apply for a job. Facebook is the most prolific utter pure abuser of personal data protection I have ever known, it's worst than when a large company gets it's data hacked!
So yeah, it's a sad sad sad day that something with so much promise, will now be utterly ruined. Shame
Zuckerberg will probably use it as some sort of first step to stealing your soul because he would sell that too if he could get it.
Worst. News. Ever.
Now we can browse Facebook with the headset. (If they would ever do such a thing.)
I backed. I waited. I'm sure glad I did at the time but kind of feel like Oculus has been somewhat neutered in the name of FB and it's social-connect to everyone - crap. Many people backed this because of the indie vision and inventive ideas. Ah well. At least the oculus team made it. I just feel it was the community that made oculus what it became and now ... Well ...
Sure... Whos up for farmville in virtual reality
Not made by Facebook.
Did Facebook kill iOS? No?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
I'm worried now
Can't wait to play candy crush and FarmVille in i virtual reality. And have ads pop up in my face! Immersion! Can't wait to buy whatever is in that ad because I can't stop looking away!
I'm really looking forward to having hundreds of ads pop up in my face in virtual reality.
I know I'm dropping support for the Rift indefinitely. Unless they can somehow convince me those aren't horns sticking out of their heads, Sony's Morpheus suddenly looks FAR more appealing.
Yep I am now officially excited to see what they do with Morpheus.
Brilliant VR FarmVille I totally can't wait............NOT!
I have this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.. I've never trusted Facebook.
All you guys are ungrateful assholes. Sure facebook has done some unsavory things, but they are buying oculus for 2BILLION DOLLARS. Do you not know how much can be done with that? Not to mention the fact that facebook has connections, and will further the adaption of oculus even more. Like f*cking seriously. This could mean a lot of good things, don't just assume the worst.
"Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate. The Rift is highly anticipated by the gaming community, and there's a lot of interest from developers in building for this platform. We're going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games. Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook to achieve this."
That is a direct statement from Mark Zuckerburg. Basically they'll be doing everything they planned, getting more support, more connections. This will probably make the end product less expensive, and better.
Right. But it's Facebook. Why would I want to help someone like zuckerberg make a profit by yet again working off of someone else's idea?
Glad you typed out assholes but self-edited the f*cking.
It's important when insulting people in a random gamer website rant to remember basic etiquette. JOKING!
Oculus was a dedicated next-gen gaming one of a kind experience. We don't need Facebook and the likes turning it into a cash cow riddled with ads/bullshit. I sensed the oculus was the shock that the gaming scene needed after smartphones took over. And now this beam of hope is dimming. Peace out!
Sorry but I just couldn't disagree more.
I can't see why FB would want Oculus Rift, but I didn't see why Google would want to make cellphones before Android. Maybe they're branching out?
And y'never know, maybe they won't screw it up? It's possible...
FK FB! Stop buying things we like and turn them into something worthless or at least halt their innovation! I don't want to sign in to FB AT ALL! I don't need to share everything especially not through FB!
The depressing future in Ready Player One at least had the VR sets neutral. Bleh.
facebook virtual reality? ...fail...
This is the strangest gaming news I've heard by far. Welcome to Neuromancer. Please don't mind those ads in your peripheral vision.
RIP Oculus Rift
I think u all are missing the point lol i don't hold a a fb account, i think its self indulgent 24 karat crap diseased with attention seekers and the same old selfies over and over e.g the pulling a face pic, the check how hot i am pic, all the bullshite pic of what an amazing life i have NOTTTTT!! But Facebook is loaded so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they will get the capital to make it more special, i wudnt mind speaking to my loved ones in virtual reality Skype or some crap like that lmao and its the makers of occulous who decided to sell... So who knows maybe they know they cant give it the future that a bigger company can?? Il have to watch this space, this one might get interesting??!
The realization I am coming to is that in this Oculus and Facebook mess, the real victim aren't the Kickstarter backers... though those guys have it rough. I honestly think it's Facebook itself. Think about it, since Whatsapp it's just become a shopping spree with no strategic directive and no corporate vision. Here, by the way are some of the more informative articles from today's press that I particularly enjoyed - http://www.pressreader.com/.... Oh and it's not true the Oculus doesn't have competitors.. .there's always the Sony VR Headset.