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To realize its VR desires, Facebook needs to kill what Oculus has built

Fb bought Oculus and has spent the rest 5 years killing what it used to be as soon as and reinventing it as a Fb-scale company.
Facebook bought Oculus and has spent the last five years killing what it was and reinventing it as a Facebook-scale company.

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Author: Lucas Matney

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  1. "Facebook is officially killing off the Rift. The company showed off its latest headset at its newly renamed Facebook Connect online event today, but they also revealed that they would be ending sales of the PC-based Oculus Rift S early next year". (September 16, 2020)
  2. "Facebook’s relentless blatant feature copy of Snapchat have been seen as one of the chief examples of the company’s competitive overreach, but Snap CEO Evan Spiegel isn’t sure whether antitrust activity from the government is going to change the company’s near-term prospects…". (October 4, 2019)
  3. "As consumer tech companies come under fire for how they handle voice data from consumers, Facebook is announcing changes to how users can manage recordings and transcriptions that are stored on Facebook’s services". (September 18, 2019)
  4. "With Google and Facebook yielding massive control over the online ad market, leaving only scraps for other ad platforms, perhaps it was only natural that tech startups would take a step back and start to look for opportunities in selling billboards". (February 13, 2020)
  5. "A number of popular apps including Spotify, GroupMe, Pinterest and TikTok were fielding user iOS crash reports Wednesday evening, the result of an apparent issues with Facebooks SDK according to a lengthy GitHub thread on the topic". (May 7, 2020)
  6. "The quarantine lockdown is driving a record number of users to Facebooks products. On a conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed a number of new metrics highlighting a significant bump in Facebook usage during the broader quarantine lockdown". (April 29, 2020)
  7. "Australian Facebook users will be forced to go elsewhere to read news after the company announced Wednesday that they will be restricting users in the country from sharing or viewing news links on the platform". (February 17, 2021)
  8. "Subscription pricing is landing on Facebooks Oculus Store, giving VR developers another way to monetize content on Facebooks Oculus Quest headset". (April 15, 2021)
  9. "Most of the people I spoke with at Facebook’s Oculus Connect see the proliferation of virtual reality as a foregone conclusion, one that’s just a matter of timing at this point". (September 27, 2019)
  10. "Facebook is restructuring its experimental hardware efforts and giving its moonshot projects a home within its AR/VR research division". (December 15, 2018)
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