Not everybody hates Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus Rift: Many developers who’ve been working with the platform tell Mashable they feel their work — and their belief in the future of virtual reality — has been validated with the $2 billion sale. There are still those, however, who are wary of Facebook’s “really ugly and really gross” history with gaming.
The social-media reaction looked overwhelmingly negative at first. While some bigger names expressed immediate, loud disinterest in working with Facebook — Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson grabbed the most headlines by saying Facebook “creeps me out” — his opinion isn’t wholly representative of the roughly 75,000 developers have been playing with Oculus, some for more than a year. Read more…
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