Eh. Go back and read again. At no point did I say the project isn't going to go forwards under Facebook. I'm sure they can do much more now, with much more money thrown at them. I'm worried, however, that FB will want to recoup that investment by using the same techniques they already use to make money in all of their…

Oh, man, yes, yes, and yes. Back when I was 8 and the world was in a dinosaur craze (circa 1992) I found Search for Dinosaurs in a bookstore. I quickly devoured that book, and went on to read/play all eight in the series (this was compounded by my interest in time travel, spurred by watching back to the future reruns…

It was clearly being pushed as gaming-focused hardware, which could be used for other objectives. I was expecting to use it for research on my own field, in fact. The thing is, it was supposed to be a piece of hardware, no strings attached, which you could use for any situation, with a very open ecosystem so anyone…

I never said I had any proof of those things. I said they might happen or are likely to happen, and that it would be a bad thing. The reasoning is: at this point, FB will be thinking "how can we make money off this thing?" and Facebook's usual solution is "data mining and advertising", since that's how they make money…

sorry =(

To be honest, I don't think Nintendo would be a good choice right now, as I stated in the other reply. They have VR experience, hardware experience, and healthy respect for their customers, but they tend to be a bit too closed for their own good.

Admongering is fine in the Facebook environment. It's the datamining and user information brokering that's a problem. If the ads make it into the rift, it'll be a big nuisance. If datamining makes it, it'll be a deal breaker.

goatse moolator.

"Where is this user facing camera? I've not heard of it once."

"How are they going to use the rift to track who you talk to"

Nintendo has over 10 billion dollars in the bank*. It would be a big investment, but considering they have already dabbled in the realms of Virtual Reality and 3D, it wouldn't be uncharacteristic of them. They also need something big to pull back into the hardware arms race, in which they've fallen far behind. The…

The "data mining" is one of the three reasons why I'm concerned about Facebook. I don't trust they'll use my personal information (where I spend my time, who I spend it with, what my interests are) for purely good purposes.

I understand they needed more money. I just don't see why it had to be Facebook. It could have been Nintendo, Valve, Samsung, or any other company that doesn't have "being a complete and utter jerk to their own user/consumer" as their main revenue strategy. Ad-mongering, privacy-pissing Facebook just might be the…

Well yes, humans are at the core... tho that doesn't really answer why zombies, specifically, rather than other types of post-apocalyptic stories are predominant today. Why zombies instead of rogue AI? or nuclear winter? or alien invasion? Sure, we have all of those, but they're not nearly as prevalent as zombies. I…

OK, I'll posit my own theory that I've developed over the years.

Not an unsolvable conundrum. If human descendants achieve immortality, they'll have plenty of time to research ways to travel into parallel universes in which heat death is farther off than in our own. This would be the "best case scenario", , in which such technological entities could potentially migrate eternally…

hm. The only ones I care about are Kenshin, Seiya and Goku, tbh (I suppose that kinda betrays my age, as well). But, wait, there are jiggly boobs, too! So all is good.

I've found this difference interesting since I first heard a foreign version of a dog's bark. This one study, however, is a bit strange, as it only seems to ask one particular person to vocalize as they please. The girl doing Brazilian portuguese versions, at least, makes some weird, non-standard sounds. Ask a…

Looking forward to his rendition of prostate woman.

Actually, some of them do. Namely, multiplayer titles, especially yearly-renewed franchises, like sports games and call of duty. It's okay to wait a couple months, but if you wait an year you're late to the party, the community is smaller and the players who are still there are more skilled in the game and posses more…