Reddit reviews The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
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The book comes out on Tuesday, by the way. Apparently Facebook gave the author a lot of access up until a point when they decided they didn’t like some of the things he was going to say and banned all employees from communicating with him.
> In a nutshell it was basically that for a period of about six months Facebook had been systematically lying to me, particularly with regards to Palmer Luckey and the reason for his exit, and once I began to reveal to them that I actually knew what the truth was they decided it was better not to talk to me and to tell all of their employees not to talk to me.
> And, you know, I guess I kind of envisioned at some point that maybe my access would end with Facebook... because I did come across a lot of pieces of information, not just related to Palmer but just in general that I felt, like, they would not be too psyched about getting out there... but what I found particularly fascinating and unnerving was the extent to which Facebook lied to me.
> And I make that distinction between lying and spin. You know, spin, to me, is embellishment; it’s trying to take real facts and bend them as much as you can to accommodate a more favourable version or a version that you want. And that’s what PR teams and communication teams do, and as much as it is annoying to deal with as a journalist I respect it, that’s their job. But being lied to, to me, is a whole other different thing. To me that’s even way worse than saying “no comment”.
> So that really bothered me, and it bothered me too because, as you are familiar with ... I write in a narrative non-fiction style... so it’s not always a case of attributing quotes directly to a source. ... So I almost felt like they were essentially trying to launder their misinformation through me, and in a way that they didn’t think would come back to them because it wouldn’t be sourced to them. But I ended up making an exception because I felt like it was important it be clear who the information was coming from. And that was the source of... the end of our relationship.
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> Palmer is amazingly egotistical
WTF are you talking about? o.O Read History of the Future. You couldn't be further from the truth.
> you can never know if something better will come along
If you believe that, you don't understand what VR is.
VR is the "final platform", because it ends in the Matrix, where you can literally do or be anything. Any other form of entertainment, from sex to playing football to being a fucking whale can be done in VR.