Lapho ihedsethi yangempela engokoqobo edizayinwe nguPalmer Luckey ishaya ipulatifomu yeKickstarter ifuna ukuxhaswa, ULuckey waba yisikhulu sangempela seSilicon Valley. Kungekudala ngemuva kokwethulwa kwayo, izinkampani eziningi bezinentshisekelo kule phrojekthi, iphrojekthi egcine igcinwe ezandleni ze-Facebook, okuthe ekuqaleni akuzange kubenzele umusa bonke labo baxhasi ababekhethe ukwenza lo msebenzi. Kepha kubukeka sengathi ukuzijabulisa kwakhe kuFacebook sekuphelile njengoba singafunda esitatimendeni esishicilelwe yinkundla yokuxhumana. Isizathu? Ngicabanga ukuthi asisoze sazi.
Esitatimendeni lapho Kumenyezelwe ukulahlwa kweVR guru yeFacebook Singafunda:
Sizomkhumbula. Ifa likaPalmer lidlula kude ne-Oculus. Umoya wakhe wokubuza wasiza ekuguqulweni kwangempela kwesimanje kanye nokusiza ekwakheni imboni ezungezile. Siyakubonga ngakho konke okwenzele iqiniso langempela kanye ne-Oculus. Simfisela okuhle kodwa.
Mhlawumbe esinye sezizathu zalesi sinqumo iphathelene nokulingwa okusanda kulahleka kwe-Oculus, Isahlulelo agwetshwe ngaso ukuthi akhokhe ama- $ 500 wezigidi kuZenimax, ngoba esolwa ngokusebenzisa ubuchwepheshe obakhiwe yinkampani, impahla ebukhali uJohn Carmack, owayekade esebenza eZenimax, ayithatha ngaphambi kokujoyina iphrojekthi yePalmer Lukey .
Ngonyaka we-2014, UFacebook uthathe izintambo ku-Oculus ngemuva kokukhokha u- $ 2.400 billion, okumele afake kuyo yonke imali ayitshalile kusukela ngaleso sikhathi ngaphezu kwezigidi ezingama-500 obekufanele azikhokhe, okudala izindleko zephrojekthi, ekugcineni engaphumelelanga njengenkampani ebifunwa kusukela i-HTC Vives, umncintiswano oqondile ka-Oculus, ithengisa okuphindwe kabili.