Oculus founder responds to flak over 'exclusive' games

Oculus VR came under fire last week after its CEO said the company will fund development of about two dozen “Oculus-exclusive” games for its virtual reality headset. The company has now responded to the complaints, saying some of those games may eventually come to other VR platforms.The spat started after Brendan Iribe, CEO of Facebook-owned Oculus, told a gaming magazine last week that the company’s Oculus Studios division has been funding games that will be exclusive to Oculus, such as Incomniac’s “Edge of Nowhere.”That led to complaints that Oculus is building a closed ecosystem for its headset that could fragment the VR industry before it gets off the ground.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'

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The Beast and the Bethany: An exclusive extract from Jack Meggitt-Phillips' debut

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Booksource Founder Sandy Jaffe Dies at 80

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Things get weird when a neural net is trained on text adventure games

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How should we respond to Trump’s hurricane lies?

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