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"Zuckerberg explained that he felt that Oculus represented an entirely new post-PC and post-mobile platform."

He's probably right. While Google and others are focusing on half-baked wearables as their key to the future, facebook just bought a huge chunk of the most likely successor.

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Ironically, gathered from reading the initial reactions of early adopters, I think they just destroyed the chances of Oculus succeeding.

Is your name a coincidence?

Yeah, I just like the name :)

You sound like Oculus owns some really valuable technology (they clearly don't own a 2B user base yet). But did sony spend $2B for R&D in their VR project? I doubt so.

Facebook spent 400m and 1.6b of overvalued stock.

Wrong. Google knows that there's immense potential in VR. It's just too early for them to get into it yet. The pushback from privacy advocates would kill any potential project.

How do we know they're not already working on it as a covert project?

Because that's not their M.O.

They like getting the PR value out of all of their projects even if it isn't commercially viable.

I would be very, very surprised if there weren't a few window-less rooms in Cupertino with prototype HMDs bolted to tables in them :)

It makes "real" social interaction live in the virtual world.

Thing is, Google is pursuing wearables as pursuant to its core competency: data mining. What does VR have to do with Facebook's core competency?

Eye tracking.

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