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It’s the Experience dammit! Consolidation Part 3 (Facebook and Oculus VR)

by Brian Katz on · 1 comment

I don’t usually do deal analysis but when your twitter timeline fills up with the news of Facebook acquiring Oculus VR it becomes hard not to comment. Now to be fair, many of the jokes are hilarious (I especially like the Yahoo buying ViewMaster one) but at the same time a lot of people are saying Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and wondering what they have to do to get some of Mark Zuckerberg’s money. The simple answer is that it’s the experience dammit! (As a side note, it’s always interesting to watch the number of people who are instant pundits who have never even tried a product out.)

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