Whatever you call it, the powers that be want you to call it "Rift", personally I see that as a bit of an uphill struggle ( Oculus does seem to like to make life difficult for itself though) or like King Canute trying to hold back the tide..
Does anybody, sensible, refer to the Rift as anything other than "the Rift" ?
I've done a couple of posts today after reading this thread and have referred to the HMD as "Rift". I guess it's more based on sentence structure then actual naming. I bought a "the Rift" from Best Buy doesn't work. I bought the Rift from Best Buy. is proper but "the" is not in the name of the device. Or did I miss the point of this.
@Cybereality
You only call it "The Oculus" because if you say Rift in your office people think you are talking about the growing thing between the company and the community. /ZING. I jest! I jest!
I wouldn't still be here, waiting on a pre-order, Cancelling a Vive pre-order if I was a hater. Just like causing a little trouble every now and then.
But Seriously, tell Palmer to chill with the PR for a while. Next "Good News Tweet" should be "All Kickstarter backers and Pre-Ordered orders have been filled!"
"Google it" then "grab a Kleenex" ... do you also have a problem with these phrases?
Similarly, "see you in the Rift" will probably come to mean Oculus' VR chat room... also support by "the HTC"... leading to the term "facepalm" to mean "go stick your head up your arse" ("arse" meaning VR or "non-reality")... I dunno...
I think that 'Rift' is a slang term we use in the VR community, but the actual term when telling someone about it should be "Oculus Rift", so they know what the product is. Rift is also a word itself, unlike Xbox so they might not get the context.
Facebook bought Instagram. How exactly did they ruin them?
