Oculus wants to build a billion-person MMO with Facebook

[AlexGoesHigh]

well it seems everybody's predictions about a facebook experience with oculus, seems to be true, well more likely it was bound to happen but i didn't expect it to be a MMO with a billion users.

 

 

When Facebook purchased Oculus VR for $2 billion, both companies stayed fairly tight-lipped about their goals. The money would help Oculus build virtual reality headsets cheaper and better, while Facebook would have a chance to lead the next big computing platform. However, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe just told an audience at TechCrunch Disrupt about one lofty possibility for the pair: building a massively multiplayer experience for one billion simultaneous users. "This is going to be an MMO where we want to put a billion people in VR," he told attendees.

 

While Iribe admits that a billion-person MMO is "going to take a bigger network than exists in the world today," he says Facebook's network makes a great place to start, and suggested it could be a Metaverse that joins disparate virtual worlds.

 

Getting to one billion users may also have been the reason Oculus decided to join up with Facebook instead of a traditional gaming company. While Iribe says Oculus is still as committed to games as ever, the company realized that a focus on games could artificially limit its reach. "Do you want to build a platform that has a billion users on it, or only 10, 20, or 50 million?" asks Iribe, noting that dedicated game systems don't sell nearly as well as mobile devices in the grand scheme of things.

 

they are obviously aiming for a virtual experience but not in the form of a conventional game, still how long for them to take your "soul" into a fully virtual reality?

 

Source: The Verge

[SSOB]

I knew this would happen. They will be worse than Jagex/Blizzard etc. with all their paytoplay services...

[brownninja97]

4k farm ville, im down.

[Wauthar]

Now the question is: did Oculus want this of was it Facebook that came up with the idea...

[Nineshadow]

Candy Crush MMO : Experience VR with over a billion people!

[WiiManic]

Give me the OASIS or the world from Snow Crash and I'm down.

[Nineshadow]

Oh no!I know what it's gonna be.An MMO in which you have to poke the others.

THE HORROR!!!!

[SSOB]

Oh no!I know what it's gonna be.An MMO in which you have to poke the others.

THE HORROR!!!!

You are one crazy kid. Please make an example in blender. DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nineshadow]

You are one crazy kid. Please make an example in blender. DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would,but I gotta go to sleep.School tomorrow at 6AM,and it's 12PM now.Night'ey.

[StingBull]

Now that they have VR technology under their belt, they will crate the literal Second Life.

[Misanthrope]

[wilbso]

What are they gonna do, build candy crush saga for oculus? Im still not impressed that facebook has bought Oculus. Facebook, out of all company's. Its just stupid. I use facebook often, but seriously.

[pixeldensity]

well if its bad, we can always ignore its existence.

[CyanideInsanity]

I can't help but imagine that it will end up being contradictory to their intended audience, with the rift being a device that they may not afford/want/care for.

[Damikiller37]

Make a quake-style FPS inside of a massive city with thousands of people and I'm down

[AlexGoesHigh]

Make a quake-style FPS inside of a massive city with thousands of people and I'm down

quake VR: The MMO

[EChondo]

I can see where they want to go with this, but this is not the future I want from VR.

 

If you all have the time to watch this, I would give it a look;

 

It's about how technological devices(computers, phones, tablets) consume our everyday life and how we should "look up" instead of down(at our phones).

[Snickerzz]

if it lets me own a horse, im down<3

[AlexGoesHigh]

if it lets me be a horse, im down<3

fixed

[Snickerzz]

fixed

yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

[Jobobee]

My dream idea for a game is one where you can do ANYTHING. A simulation of real life, but you could rob a bank, and then if you get arrested, escape or just make a new save. Think of GTA * 10, and especially as an MMO.

[Misanthrope]

Oh no!I know what it's gonna be.An MMO in which you have to poke the others.

THE HORROR!!!!

 

I bet this will just be a slight graphical upgrade of Second Life with likes and 3D Which reminds me of this:

 

[LAwLz]

*Queue extremely sarcastic voice*

Oh great... Facebook: The Game. Exactly what I wanted!

I am sure this won't suck more than a collapsed neutron star...

I can't wait to see how wonderful this will be.

[NInety]

'connection to facebook has been lost, please sign in'

[Scheer]

I knew this would happen. They will be worse than Jagex/Blizzard etc. with all their paytoplay services...

 

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