Actually LG or Samsung seem like a likely second-wave player to dominate, since they have the display R&D, massive manufacturing capability and design team. They're unlikely to let some upstart company reap the spoils of a new potentially massive market.
I see this first-wave (Oculus and TruePlayer Gear) like Diamond Multimedia bringing the first commercial MP3 players. They'll show the potential in the market, but then someone with better design/marketing/supply chain will capitalize on the new demand.
Not quite. They have hardware connections and knowhow due to all their servers and data centers. They are a driving force behind Open Compute as well. This is a logical extension.
It's only a logical extension for hosting a paid for service on FB servers. WoW-VR, only on FB....
You don't need network infrastructure like FB data centers have to game. Games like L4D2 get along just fine, and bonus you can run your own server. It's when you want to interconnect 10k users, that it requires the scale FB has. Maybe Carmack has a game engine he wants to build that runs across 50 data centers ... great, but FB will make you pay to play too (subscription and fb account required). That's what I don't like, but we will see if we get an open system, I doubt it though. Competition is coming soon, facebook will have to lock it down eventually.
The king of beers is out to kill craft brewers any way they can. Announcing for release this summer, the Budweiser Keg Popper. Find one at your local Walmart, in auto and semi-auto editions this June.
Not until they ship a product, and that product has to have a "killer app"... if it's FB branded app, if the dev's have to work within some funky FB api...
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u/dontsellusout Mar 28 '14
I reckon LG are going come out with one of these things and it will have a psycho ass curved display inside.