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Oculus couldn't survive by itself. It's possible that Microsoft, Samsung, Apple or someone else would purchase them, but I believe that with Oculus the best possible outcome is for them to role back anti-consumer (required FB login and especially all the policies that come with that) and anti-developer (actually blocking apps they believe compete with them) practices

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> Oculus couldn't survive by itself.

Do we know how expensive it is to maintain and how much it earns? It probably spends more than the PSVR division at Sony or the Vive division at HTC, but the Quest is quite popular and, if reviews are anything to go by, very close to making VR "mainstream". I'm not convinced it couldn't survive off investor money for a while until it becomes profitable. Silicon Valley is no stranger to unprofitable companies living off investments for years and years after all.

I could see Epic purchasing Oculus, I would be more likely to get that then with Oculus through facebook.

Plus, if they put some form of VR integration into Fortnite that could seriously drive adoption.

Epic and most other companies don’t have the kind of money to fund Oculus

I think people don’t appreciate that there is about 5000 engineers working on Oculus at FB. Then add all the supporting functions...it’s easily 7-8k

Epic games had EBITDA of a billion dollars this year. They could afford quite a bit if they wanted to go that direction.

That wouldn't even cover a year of Oculus' operations.

The number of engineers working on a product is not the same as the number of engineers needed to build a product.

Exactly. A friend who worked at Oculus said they had the most over the top tricked out work stations and he was just doing testing.

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