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Oculus Acquires RakNet Middleware & Open-Sources It
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This is exceedingly cool. But doesn't fix that John Carmack is a a Facebook employee.
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A networking library? Probably because they're going to pipe huge amounts of identitifiable or otherwise privacy violating (meta) data in realtime from the headset to NSA^H^H^H Facebook headquarters. I guess the RakNet license wasn't flexible enough, so they bought it.
Other than that a useful development for others. I might try using it instead of enet.
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Originally posted by rdnetto View PostI agree. Facebook is probably doing just as much (if not more) interesting stuff in the open source sphere as Google. Btrfs, Hack and D come to mind...
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Originally posted by stiiixy View PostWell, Facebook aren't exactly open-source unfriendly. They're just privacy rapists (which you volunteer too, might I add) =D
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Well, Facebook aren't exactly open-source unfriendly. They're just privacy rapists (which you volunteer too, might I add) =D
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Cool
When Facebook bought Oculus, I was like fuck and lost all interest in Oculus.
This is really cool that they buy stuff and open source it!
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Wow... really didn't expect this one. Good work. I supposed its now more enticing to use.
I'll look at it tonight to see what I can apply it too ;D
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Cool, if they do enough stuff like that, I'll forgive them for going to Facebook.
I won't really even mind as long as they keep documented APIs for their hardware.
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Oculus Acquires RakNet Middleware & Open-Sources It
Phoronix: Oculus Acquires RakNet Middleware & Open-Sources It
At the same time as announcing Oculus Connect, a new developer conference for the popular virtual reality gaming device, Oculus has shared they have acquired RakNet and open-sourced the software...
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