I går presenterte Mark Zuckerberg hvordan det går for Facebook, og han adresserte samtidig hvilke planer de har for Oculus Rift - en teknologi de hostet opp nærmere 13 milliarder kroner for i mars.
Han mener at de må selge 50-100 millioner enheter før det blir en betydningsfull plattform, og han tror at det kommer til å ta mange år før de når så langt:
"It needs to reach a very large scale, 50 to 100 million units, before it will really be a very meaningful thing as a computing platform. I do think it's going to take a bunch of years to get there. Maybe, I don't know, it's hard to predict exactly, but I don't think it's going to get to 50 or 100 million units in the next few years, right? That'll take a few cycles of the device to get there."
Zuckerberg mener videre at det er først når brukerbasen blir såpass stor at det blir interessant å bygge funksjoner til Oculus Rift. Han presiserer at de kommer til å satse tungt på VR-brillene, og de behandler det som en langsiktig prosjekt:
"When you get to that scale, that's when it starts to be interesting as a business, in terms of developing out of the ecosystem. So when I'm talking about it as a 10-year thing, I'm talking about building the first set of devices, and then building the audience and the ecosystem around that, until it eventually becomes a business."
<bild>Svenskekongen ser ettertenksom ut mens han tester Oculus Rift.</bild>
Kilde: Gamasutra