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The issues in my mind are the thought processes that lead him to hold his opinions. Those processes generated a prejudiced world view - one held strongly enough to affect behaviour to extend of spending money to bolster that prejudice.

Are those the thought processes you want in control of one of the world's most impactful technology companies?

Arguably, yes. We should demand "perfection" in our public figures, inasmuch as "perfection" means freedom from prejudice. In the case of BE its particularly relevant as the company he runs provides the lens through which a sizable population will see the world.

For sure; maybe the saw the writing on the wall though - i.e.: its hard for an independent to compete with Sony / MSFT / whatever other MegaCos enter the fray in terms of development resources, manufacturing scale, leverage with studios etc. If you think about it, how would Oculus have been able to finance a major production push (millions of units)?

On the flip side, competing like that might have been difficult --- but not impossible. The world needs more organizations willing to stand on their own two feet and try

Widely reported... http://techwatching.com/page.php?i=25236

Ok, so the hardware landgrab is in full effect. But... Facebook? Facebook is going to be competing with Sony? How does this line up with their competencies? With the track record they have with phones, I'm not holding my breath here.

On the other hand, would you rather Google had bought them and siphoned off their team and energy into the Googleplex as they have done with other startups?

Or - could Oculus have joined the Xbox team as a foil to Morpheus (http://techwatching.com/tag/morpheus)?

It would be even more compelling if it was packaged as a device, so that a layperson could plug it in, and log into it to install apps etc. An inverse-Steam box, if you will.

Dev Kit in the news: http://techwatching.com/page.php?i=22975

vs Sony: http://techwatching.com/page.php?i=22780

Oculus' focus is on latency; Sony's looks like its on packaging. At least Sony has cut its lead time on cloning other's products, compared to Sony's "Move" following the Wii.