Many people doubt, Oculus has to raise 100 million dollars before, became a virtual reality platform of sufficient capacity, then why sell FB? Theverge, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe dialogue.
A year ago, Oculus co-founder tells me they have no intention to sell the company, and would like to have been an independent, does not cater to the other company’s business strategy, will have to use $ 100 million in financing. But since then, FB message board $ 2 billion acquisition of Oculus major technology headlines.
FB acquisition Oculus zhihou, not only allows Oculus continues to independent operation, also can let virtual reality hardware in the to with to of design and production component became “easy”, in intelligent phone field manufacturers had pursuit as with low this component building into one consumption level phone, but virtual reality field we not need, this is a very with imagination of industry, for, of, great of virtual reality industry with great of phone industry has is not as of needs.
Why have decided to embrace FB?
We both approached before a formal deal was for a long time, the real turning point in seeing Zach and his team, we show the demo, talk about our vision, and they are very excited.
And Zach asks us, “can we help you? Is there anything we need to do for you? How can we be a part of it and virtual reality to do bigger and better? “The Exchange after a while we begin to trust each other, then tells FB team coming on Oculus and Oculus will affect the world, Oculus turned into a mass of hardware.
Zach said after the hearing that they can help me, because we know what we need to do in the game, and FB can give us some help in other ways, Oculus has been in the gaming community activities before, now have more allied to the FB, together we can make this virtual reality platforms faster, better and cheaper.
Oculus has previously successfully raised $ 100 million, and said the company would operate independently, and FB Association now is it worth it? From FB to get what could be better than a 100 million financing. Completely independent of the temptation even greater?
Iribe for our virtual reality, many other companies have expressed interest, but Zack believes that our vision is also willing to wish us a helping hand, we can do the things they always wanted to do as soon as possible, so we are willing to join only if we want to do without any change. virtual reality iPhone case
Palmer Luckey (another co-founder of Oculus): up until now, we have been driven by smartphone market, a lot of hardware around it also complement each other, but with the more advanced virtual reality technology, we will develop a specialized virtual reality hardware.
Great reality industry requires more than even handset makers, costly hardware business, design a new display technology is very expensive, which makes us aware that we need companies like FB, so as to create the most likely product, with the lowest price and the best quality.
After being bought by large, what is the $ 100 million cannot do things before?
Hardware is a very expensive gadget to boost up to a platform is even money, before we are investing, but we want to expand the scale, also wants to buy some of the components, and other large companies now, reducing financial risks, avoiding strong competition for large companies, but also to help virtual reality users quickly spread.
For software developers, to profit on a virtual reality App appears to be more difficult, they need to convince investors he would develop a good game and successfully apply it in virtual reality, but we have the ability to identify what game is suitable to do so, we can also invest in the game.
To establish a virtual reality with the FB platform? VR iPhone case
Iribe: I am afraid we are not making any comment at this stage, to directly see our news release.
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