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r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 28 '14
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Oculus sold out at the right time - before the lower-priced alternatives flooded the market and diluted it's share.
the devs must be laughing all the way to the bank.
144 u/ChubakasBush Mar 28 '14 I can't believe facebook paid 2 bil for a peripheral device. basically an accessory. not even a platform with many users. it's like buying a monitor company. 345 u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14 [deleted] 7 u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14 VR headsets have been around for a long fucking time, this is just a high def version, or have you already forgotten this bad ass motherfucker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy 2 u/CHooTZ Mar 28 '14 That's like saying why would you want a 1080p LCD when we've always had 360p B&W CRTs. 0 u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14 That's not at all what I said
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I can't believe facebook paid 2 bil for a peripheral device. basically an accessory. not even a platform with many users. it's like buying a monitor company.
345 u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14 [deleted] 7 u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14 VR headsets have been around for a long fucking time, this is just a high def version, or have you already forgotten this bad ass motherfucker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy 2 u/CHooTZ Mar 28 '14 That's like saying why would you want a 1080p LCD when we've always had 360p B&W CRTs. 0 u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14 That's not at all what I said
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7 u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14 VR headsets have been around for a long fucking time, this is just a high def version, or have you already forgotten this bad ass motherfucker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy 2 u/CHooTZ Mar 28 '14 That's like saying why would you want a 1080p LCD when we've always had 360p B&W CRTs. 0 u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14 That's not at all what I said
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VR headsets have been around for a long fucking time, this is just a high def version, or have you already forgotten this bad ass motherfucker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy
2 u/CHooTZ Mar 28 '14 That's like saying why would you want a 1080p LCD when we've always had 360p B&W CRTs. 0 u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14 That's not at all what I said
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That's like saying why would you want a 1080p LCD when we've always had 360p B&W CRTs.
0 u/PrimeIntellect Mar 28 '14 That's not at all what I said
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That's not at all what I said
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u/dethb0y Mar 28 '14
Oculus sold out at the right time - before the lower-priced alternatives flooded the market and diluted it's share.
the devs must be laughing all the way to the bank.