If you got Carmack and Abrash working with you on cool tech while having no funding worries ever, I'd call you a genius as well. Luckey is a smart dude as well, he brought in Carmack, got this whole thing going, and is really smart + project driven for 21, builds lasers in his spare time. Zuck built an app that everyone including your mom uses, so that is also pretty impressive aside from having all those guys work for you. So all four are really geniuses or at least really smart pioneers.
With that, Facebook is now mainstream. Facebook buying Oculus just made VR mainstream again and noticed in finance. So while game developers and gamers were sold (I backed it), the mainstream remembered it from the past VR experiences which sucked. All the VR guys are in one place, well funded, attracting more to it and there is a mainstream outlet for VR (Facebook) and funding will be out in the market because of the deal. Now everyone is sold on it even if some developers and backers were surprised by it (even I felt a bit eh). I ultimately think it was a genius move.
To read Abrash tell it, Facebook's recent acquisition of Oculus VR influenced his decision by rendering virtual reality development a viable career path.
With that, Facebook is now mainstream. Facebook buying Oculus just made VR mainstream again and noticed in finance. So while game developers and gamers were sold (I backed it), the mainstream remembered it from the past VR experiences which sucked. All the VR guys are in one place, well funded, attracting more to it and there is a mainstream outlet for VR (Facebook) and funding will be out in the market because of the deal. Now everyone is sold on it even if some developers and backers were surprised by it (even I felt a bit eh). I ultimately think it was a genius move.
To read Abrash tell it, Facebook's recent acquisition of Oculus VR influenced his decision by rendering virtual reality development a viable career path.