Facebook, Oculus Rift, and the Kickstarter Backlash

An angry roar erupted across the Internet yesterday. Facebook--that omnipresent, unavoidable social media corporation--had purchased Oculus VR for $2 billion. The pioneers of modern-day virtual reality had given up their self-ownership for a sum greater than the gross national product of Greenland, consumed by a company sewn into the very fabric of our social structure. Resentment spread like wildfire as many of those who had helped fund the Oculus Rift when it was nothing more than a far-off pr...