Oculus Rift E3 "Conference" is a Humiliating Spectacle

The fate of the Oculus Rift was sealed when Facebook purchased Oculus VR for $2 billion last March. This author remembers the devastating disappointment felt on that rainy, dreadful day. Facebook and Oculus Rift developers, however, promised that Facebook's power play would not affect the video game focus of the rift in any way.

It would seem that Facebook did not ruin the Oculus Rift - Oculus Rift developers are accomplishing that on their own. Nothing could prove this more concretely than the Oculus E3 Conference which occurred on Thursday, June 11th, just a few days prior to the official start of E3. All that was needed to confirm all our worst fears was what you can see at 3:25 of this segment of the conference found on Youtube.

Notice how excited she seems.

Is VR really going to be about us virtually playing video games in a virtual living room? How is that even remotely different from just playing a video game in your living room? As in, in real life. Hopefully there are far more imaginative uses of the Rift than this. If this is what Virtual Reality is going to be, maybe Oculus VR should make a game where you can virtually stand in an empty electronics store, with hundreds of virtual, unsold Oculus Rift units stacked everywhere.