#May2014

Oculus wants to build BILLION-PERSON MMO with Facebook. AIM LOW AMIRITE LOL?

The Metaverse!

Ah, corporate hyperbole! I love this shit. Tell me all about your hopes and dreams, wizards of crafting press releases! Visionaries with too much money!, pepper me with your Future. And then give me my Snow Crash wet dream, okay?

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Oculus adds former VALVE VR ENGINEER to staff. Poaching get?

ALL THE VIRTUAL HEADSETS

I’m just imbuing this story with all sorts of things that aren’t true. Probably. Probably made-up. Like this dude who has left Valve for Oculus was totally poached from The Gabe Company. Top secret dinners. Libations and young sacrifices promised. He signed with Oculus in blood, as John Carmack stood in the corner jerking off over an original printing of Atlas Shrugged. That’s what I envision. ‘Cause if I don’t, it’s just moar “blah blah VR is wonderful, blah blah” rhetoric.

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OCULUS has raised another $75 MILLI in funding for the OCULUS RIFT.

Virtual Reality is so cool.

Oculus continues to cobble together huge sums of money in order to fund their Oculus Rift gadget. That’s a serious amount of cash for a serious gadget that is giving serious dorks serious priapisms.

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