Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
Let&#x27;s be real: they don&#x27;t care about VR per se. They care about it only insofar as it gets you to use a Facebook account.<p>This is what I see as the biggest overlooked consequence of web advertising--it&#x27;s become so lucrative, that there is very little reason to invest in real&#x2F;hard problems. All of the profits (and thus jobs, investment) is in how to tune the ad algorithm.<p>Making hardware is hard and risky. Selling hardware is hard. Writing games is hard. If you&#x27;re lucky, a user buys 2-3 games per year, Oculus takes a royalty and earns $15-$30.<p>Which is probably about the ballpark amount they earn just from each Facebook user anyway.