臉書20億收購Oculus； Cloud Storage War,Againa

搶攻虛擬實境　臉書20億收購Oculus

2014-03-27 Web only作者：經濟學人

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• 虛擬實境
• 臉書
• Facebook
• Oculus
• 併購
• 經濟學人

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Facebook以20億美元的代價收購Oculus VR，祖克伯（Mark Zuckerberg）表示，目的是為了運算的未來而下的長期賭注。Oculus製作讓玩家得以親臨奇幻世界的頭戴裝置，雖然它並不是第一家將虛擬實境技術運用在大眾化商品而獲利的公司，但與社群網站巨人結合，確實十分令人驚奇。

玩家一直夢想著能有個頭戴式裝置，讓他們能夠彷彿置身於栩栩如生的世界。拜運算能力和軟體的發展之賜，這個夢想已經更為接近現實；Oculus開發的原型Oculus Rift，最近曾在科技盛會SXSW上展出，讓有幸試戴的與會者極為讚嘆。

其他企業也將目光對準了虛構實境。索尼最近公布了Morpheus計畫，他們開發的虛擬實境頭戴裝置原型，可以與PlayStation 4主機連結，讓遊戲體驗更加真實；謠傳微軟也在為Xbox主機開發頭戴裝置。

部分老玩家必定會覺得有些厭煩，畢竟，1990年代之時，個人電腦上的虛擬實境遊戲也曾被捧為下一個重大商機，但最後Sega VR等設備皆以失敗收場，因為技術實在不夠成熟。

不過，隨著圖像運算能力大幅進展、小型攝影機價格走低、超薄高解晰螢幕問世，已然讓情勢大幅改善；這正是為何Facebook相信Oculus在遊戲方面極具前景。約7.5萬台Oculus Rift已經搶購一空，讓遊戲開發者得以好好利用其性能。Facebook財務長艾伯斯曼（David Ebersman）指出，Oculus和Facebook未來光是在遊戲方面的利潤，就足以讓20億美元值回票價。

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