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Unfortunately, there is no momentum to get Minecraft on the Oculus Rift. Notch publicly cancelled it after Facebook bought Oculus.

And then he changed his mind.

Not to split hairs, but that's really not how I'd characterize that tweet. He only says he's done being mad about it.

It is clear if you read the entire conversation.

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@bar10dr that's up to the minecraft dev team

Probably around the time Microsoft proposed this deal.

Apparently Microsoft didn't propose anything. Notch went to them.