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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

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.

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.