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https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971

Mark Zuckerberg Wrote:

I'm excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire Oculus VR, the leader in virtual reality technology.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. For the past few years, this has mostly meant building mobile apps that help you share with the people you care about. We have a lot more to do on mobile, but at this point we feel we're in a position where we can start focusing on what platforms will come next to enable even more useful, entertaining and personal experiences.

This is where Oculus comes in. They build virtual reality technology, like the Oculus Rift headset. When you put it on, you enter a completely immersive computer-generated environment, like a game or a movie scene or a place far away. The incredible thing about the technology is that you feel like you're actually present in another place with other people. People who try it say it's different from anything they've ever experienced in their lives.

Oculus's mission is to enable you to experience the impossible. Their technology opens up the possibility of completely new kinds of experiences.

Immersive gaming will be the first, and Oculus already has big plans here that won't be changing and we hope to accelerate. The Rift is highly anticipated by the gaming community, and there's a lot of interest from developers in building for this platform. We're going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games. Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook to achieve this.

But this is just the start. After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.

This is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.

These are just some of the potential uses. By working with developers and partners across the industry, together we can build many more. One day, we believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality will become a part of daily life for billions of people.

Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming and we have a chance to build it together. I can't wait to start working with the whole team at Oculus to bring this future to the world, and to unlock new worlds for all of us.

Virtual reality HB10 porn is getting closer to reality - leading to the price of pussy reaching new lows. Presumably Facebook won't allow porn software but people will find a way.

Heartiste's predictions with similar technology is here: http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/sexbots/

[soup]

Putting on a something that blocks your eyes and distracts you .. The quickest way to die if you are in nature.

[RawGod]

You can't fool your subconscious. Someone who has bettered himself and seduces fine women, his pituitary gland releasing all the hormones of an elite man, will carry himself with assurance, while someone who "bangs HB10s" in virtual reality will have the hormonal profile and body language of a masturbatory failure.

[Teutatis]

Totally agree with RawGod, much of the satisfaction of having sex with an attractive woman is to know she's there because we somehow managed to attract her, either because we have some random physical trait she might find attractive, or that we were bold or our personality is attractive to her in some manner or a myriad of other possibilities, but the point is she's there because she wants to be with us. That's why masturbation and sex with prostitutes is never satisfying, but at least prostitutes are real women, virtual reality sex is just stupid. Maybe those guys on the beta threads can find some use for it but I doubt any healthy and mentally sane men will care much for this.

[cardguy]

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[Emancipator]

Founders living the American Dream

Come up with a novel idea that is easy to execute with cheap VR tech
Fund yourself with donations from Kickstarter using a good marketing tactic
Become the first in the field with constant publicity, managing to attract great names in tech (John Carmack) and free help from companies like Valve.
Sell yourself for a couple billion to a big tech darling that's looking to branch into other markets

[It_is_my_time]

I'm not into video games or even really watching TV. But this greatly interests me. I would love to try it out.

I hope it is a replacement for women for most men. If they will not make prostitution legal, at least men will have this outlet and the thirsty betas will no longer put up with so much nonsense from the women here. As the great ROK article said, most women don't deserve a good man. And with this technology, God willing, most will no longer get even a thirsty beta. Go get your govt. handout and live in the ghetto you helped create by kicking dads out of their own houses, American women.

[Yatagan]

(03-26-2014 02:58 AM)It_is_my_time Wrote:  

I'm not into video games or even really watching TV. But this greatly interests me. I would love to try it out.

I hope it is a replacement for women for most men. If they will not make prostitution legal, at least men will have this outlet and the thirsty betas will no longer put up with so much nonsense from the women here. As the great ROK article said, most women don't deserve a good man. And with this technology, God willing, most will no longer get even a thirsty beta. Go get your govt. handout and live in the ghetto you helped create by kicking dads out of their own houses, American women.

Problem is, I can easily see the feminists/SJWs ruining the fun of VR "sex"(and sexbots for that matter) by claiming it's a rape simulator or some other hamster shit.

[It_is_my_time]

(03-26-2014 06:53 AM)Seboist Wrote:  

(03-26-2014 02:58 AM)It_is_my_time Wrote:  

I'm not into video games or even really watching TV. But this greatly interests me. I would love to try it out.

I hope it is a replacement for women for most men. If they will not make prostitution legal, at least men will have this outlet and the thirsty betas will no longer put up with so much nonsense from the women here. As the great ROK article said, most women don't deserve a good man. And with this technology, God willing, most will no longer get even a thirsty beta. Go get your govt. handout and live in the ghetto you helped create by kicking dads out of their own houses, American women.

Problem is, I can easily see the feminists/SJWs ruining the fun of VR "sex"(and sexbots for that matter) by claiming it's a rape simulator or some other hamster shit.

That is what worries me about a liberal/feminist backing company like Facebook buying it.

Hopefully that isn't the case. This would render most women obsolete and force them to improve or be completely ignored.

[Jukes]

This is some Ghost In the Shell stuff . Beauty tournaments would be funny as hell .

[funkyzeit]

You really think Zukershekelberg will let his main userbase lose their ego food?

Oculus Rift has a huge application for Facebook. Think MMO virtual town (your news feed presented as Barbie town of attention whores) with beauty pageant shows (fat girls putting their heads on 10/10 bodies and receiving likes) and other shit for endless validation carefully crafted so the betas can be thirsty while girls become even more entitled. He could become a trillionaire.

[assman]

Doesn't matter what feminists say or what Facebook does. This technology is coming and it will thrive because the demand is out there.

Agreed with the OP that the price of pussy will decline. Very attractive chicks will still be in demand, but uggs and fatties will see less demand when the alternative is to pop on VR goggles and feel like you're banging a hottie and be done in 5 minutes and back to whatever it was you were doing.

Of course, to really get the effect, a VR porn system will have to have an apparatus that your cock inserts into, but it shouldn't be all that difficult to send signals to physically manipulate something like the plastic/VR skin pussies that are already on the market.

[It_is_my_time]

(03-26-2014 08:37 AM)assman Wrote:  

Doesn't matter what feminists say or what Facebook does. This technology is coming and it will thrive because the demand is out there.

Agreed with the OP that the price of pussy will decline. Very attractive chicks will still be in demand, but uggs and fatties will see less demand when the alternative is to pop on VR goggles and feel like you're banging a hottie and be done in 5 minutes and back to whatever it was you were doing.

Of course, to really get the effect, a VR porn system will have to have an apparatus that your cock inserts into, but it shouldn't be all that difficult to send signals to physically manipulate something like the plastic/VR skin pussies that are already on the market.

I was curious so I youtube'd this new system and it has a device you insert your cock into and it jacks you off while watching the video, LOL.

If it works well, the demand would be huge for all sorts of accessories and different kinds of videos/games.

[Ziltoid]

Will this really placate the masses of sexless men out there, though? Or will it just be a higher octane of porn? At present unfettered access to any sort of porn imaginable doesn't seem to make incel types any less depressive or agitated at the end of the day.

Make it look and feel as realistic as you want, your logical brain still knows you're not interacting with a real woman, that your manhood has not enchanted another human being to voluntarily enter the bedroom with you.

Even prostitution doesn't seem like it could supplant the real deal... I'm informed that 'escorts' are widely available on Craigslist and such, but stigma notwithstanding, would even the most omega of men actually be contented and fulfilled in the long run by anything short of authentic relationships and seduction?

Maybe I'm giving men way too much credit.

[DJ-Matt]

I heard Zuckerberg bought this too:

[Mekorig]

Its a shame facebook took this under its wing. I would not toucj it eve with a 10 feet pole.

[JayMeister]

(03-26-2014 09:54 AM)Mekorig Wrote:  

Its a shame facebook took this under its wing. I would not toucj it eve with a 10 feet pole.

My thoughts. It would have been better if Google acquired it.

I'm glad for the founders though. Living the dream.

[Bad Hussar]

(03-26-2014 12:09 AM)Emancipator Wrote:  

Founders living the American Dream

Come up with a novel idea that is easy to execute with cheap VR tech
Fund yourself with donations from Kickstarter using a good marketing tactic
Become the first in the field with constant publicity, managing to attract great names in tech (John Carmack) and free help from companies like Valve.
Sell yourself for a couple billion to a big tech darling that's looking to branch into other markets

I saw the article on Bloomberg today. The writer really lays into Oculus, Kickstarter and the "suckers" who funded the company. He REALLY doesn't like the Kickstarter business model:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/20...your-money

Why so negative? Admittedly the deal Oculus offered backers doesn't sound too good, but a lot of kickstarter companies do make good offers. Usually to ship you one of the first products produced, the money collected being used to produce them. Is this such a terrible deal? They are not misleading people by implying that you are buying equity in the company. Most people back Kickstater projects because they think the product idea is cool. I really don't see the harm.

[assman]

(03-26-2014 09:12 AM)Ziltoid Wrote:  

Will this really placate the masses of sexless men out there, though? Or will it just be a higher octane of porn? At present unfettered access to any sort of porn imaginable doesn't seem to make incel types any less depressive or agitated at the end of the day.

Make it look and feel as realistic as you want, your logical brain still knows you're not interacting with a real woman, that your manhood has not enchanted another human being to voluntarily enter the bedroom with you.

Even prostitution doesn't seem like it could supplant the real deal... I'm informed that 'escorts' are widely available on Craigslist and such, but stigma notwithstanding, would even the most omega of men actually be contented and fulfilled in the long run by anything short of authentic relationships and seduction?

Maybe I'm giving men way too much credit.

You're right, it won't be long-run fulfilling on the level that interaction with an attractive, real and unpaid woman is.

But it satisfies an immediate urge more pleasurably and more deceptively realistic to your brain than current porn and does so in minutes as compared to:
getting your place tidied up / going out/chatting up women / finding one willing to go home with you / foreplay and sex / getting her out of your place

So even without being fulfilling in the long-run, by satisfying immediate desire, it lowers the price men as a whole are willing to pay for sex (not relationships, just sex with non-pros). Porn has already done that - compare $/bang today vs. a decade ago or a decade before that. VR porn takes that to the next level.

[JayMeister]

(03-26-2014 12:47 PM)Bad Hussar Wrote:  

(03-26-2014 12:09 AM)Emancipator Wrote:  

Founders living the American Dream

Come up with a novel idea that is easy to execute with cheap VR tech
Fund yourself with donations from Kickstarter using a good marketing tactic
Become the first in the field with constant publicity, managing to attract great names in tech (John Carmack) and free help from companies like Valve.
Sell yourself for a couple billion to a big tech darling that's looking to branch into other markets

I saw the article on Bloomberg today. The writer really lays into Oculus, Kickstarter and the "suckers" who funded the company. He REALLY doesn't like the Kickstarter business model:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/20...your-money

Why so negative? Admittedly the deal Oculus offered backers doesn't sound too good, but a lot of kickstarter companies do make good offers. Usually to ship you one of the first products produced, the money collected being used to produce them. Is this such a terrible deal? They are not misleading people by implying that you are buying equity in the company. Most people back Kickstater projects because they think the product idea is cool. I really don't see the harm.

Stupid article. It's not a scam when you get exactly what is advertised in no ambiguous terms. Personally I would not want to part with $25 for a "thank you" and a chance the product will become a reality, but if someone else does why not let them? No need to call them "stupid". It's a donation, not an investment.

The nice thing about kickstarter is often that you can get the product for cheaper than retail in return for taking the risk that it will never exist. This is called a fair deal (i.e. you get compensated for risk you are taking. It is assumed you would buy the product for the full retail price if it already existed).