Oculus

includes Oculus Quest 2, Oculus Rift, Oculus Two

5 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 19, 2020 by Benedict Evans · said 18 times in 8 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Oct 19, 2020 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Facebook cleared out Oculus founders for wanting to build gaming consoles
“This is why they cleared out all the team, because they bought a company staffed by people who wanted to make a games, a high-end games console, and they know they don't want that.”
Benedict Evans Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 23:37 What the Apple and Facebook events tell us about their product cycles
Oct 19, 2020 neutral
Opinion
Facebook's Oculus acquisition is a failure if VR remains just gaming
“They didn't buy Oculus to make a games device. And if it's only ever games, it's a failure.”
Benedict Evans Oct 19, 2020 ▶ 22:28 What the Apple and Facebook events tell us about their product cycles
Jun 5, 2023 positive
Insight
Evans: Oculus replaces reality by default, while Vision Pro augments it
“So the default for Oculus and for every other VR device, and that's partly because of where they came from and what was possible 10 years ago, the default for them is you put on the headset and you're somewhere else. Whereas the default for this is you put it …”
Benedict Evans Jun 5, 2023 ▶ 6:15 Apple Vision
Jun 5, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Evans: Fitness is the only non-gaming use case working for Oculus
“The one thing they didn't talk about is fitness, which is interesting because VR fitness is the one thing that's other than games sort of work for Oculus.”
Benedict Evans Jun 5, 2023 ▶ 3:54 Apple Vision
Jun 18, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Benedict Evans: Meta has spent at least $35 billion on Reality Labs
“Meta has spent, I think, at least thirty five billion dollars on this stuff. Because they spent like over thirty billion dollars on operating losses for the Reality Labs group, offset a bit by revenue from selling hardware and games. And they bought Oculus, an…”
Benedict Evans Jun 18, 2023 ▶ 26:14 Vision Pro, two weeks on
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