If HTC sells the Vive business, then every news headline better read...
HTC Vive just lost the VR War
Regardless, HTC's current position of exploring strategic options is the foreplay that leads up to a merger and acquisition. They lost, the war is over, but the defeat will get dragged out and skewed for a few more months.
Is this a shitpost? I know palmer loves a good shitpost, but I can't tell
Honestly I don't think you want to deal with the customer service shitshow that they are experiencing right now. How about a MMORPG instead?
Wow that'd be interesting to watch. I'd say go for it, but it's probably a terrible idea, tho hilarious.
10/10 shitpost man. Also, I think your little heart might rip if you had to choose between being an Oculus fanboi and a Palmer-made-Vive-2.0 fanboi.
It'll likely eat up whatever equity you've built. Doesn't seem like a good financial idea.
No. Its a dumpster fire.
if you did and sold it to Facebook the tears would be delicious..... but honestly I would rather keep the competition to see vr as a whole grow stronger.
I'm fairly certain that Palmer is just looking to get attention; that's all he seems to be good for these days. Zuckerberg and his gang of lawyers most likely enforced an iron clad "non-compete" when they ejected Palmer from the company.
If Palmer buys HTC, he will likely end up bankrupt... and dressing up in drag for all the wrong reasons, na' mean?
LG and Microsoft will provide competition. If anything OR and Mircrosoft had best keep an eye on LG. They have very low overhead producing out of South Korea and they have a very large following with their products across the globe.
We shall see what goes from here on because the South Koreans are massively huge gamers.
I would say to lose competition is a bad thing, but HTC's 'me too' strategy has meant they have just copied oculus so there is very little Oculus or LG can learn from them.
Maybe Valve could buy it out and put there money where their mouth is.
LG and Microsoft will provide competition. If anything OR and Mircrosoft had best keep an eye on LG. They have very low overhead producing out of South Korea and they have a very large following with their products across the globe.
We shall see what goes from here on because the South Koreans are massively huge gamers.
I don't think that Microsoft are going to be a threat to ANYONE, their tracking is a pile of old pants going by every single report I've read.
And LG have the same problem that HTC have in that they're using Valve's expensive to produce Lighthouse technology. That will probably be mitigated somewhat by them manufacturing their own panels and them using Lighthouse 2.0 but I can't see them beating Oculus on price when the Summer Of Rift thing is over. We'll probably see the LG headsets retailing for $500-700.
. Not a huge surprise vr was a bit of a hail Mary for HTC, who were already in dire straits.
I could be wrong but I don't think it will harm VR as a whole. Facebook / oculus seem fully committed and HTC making the vive or not I don't think will make or break valve licenced hmds . Steam vr will live on too. Valve played it well tho. They put all the risk onto HTC making the hardware and yet valve make the profit on the software which is always going to be the biggest money-spinner. Valve do what they do best sit back and let the money roll in. Gabe himself said vr can succeed or fail it won't hurt valve
Vr will become self sufficient sooner rather than later but right now imo it's a loss leader building the infrastructure. That is why it needs big companies that can afford to subsidise it initially like Facebook. Valve and MS are well positioned too as they can both offset hardware losses of software sales but not if they pass all the risk onto the manufacturers
Fiat Coupe, gone. 350Z gone. Dirty nappies, no sleep & practical transport incoming. Thank goodness for VR 🙂
