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They are not sitting there doing nothing
If they really have 80 people working for them thats around 3000 man/woman/person hours a week being put into their product.
That is a huge effort, we are not being shown everything at the moment

I am not sure that there is a plan B, or even if one is needed.

After the Quest headset launches, presumeably with version 2 of the App they have said that they can launch on other platforms/heasets, this alone would give them a leg up

I think that to ramp up spending that way would require somebody getting behind MVR

Could be that big buyer is Merian Not many reasons for the sp to go down at the moment. The upcoming financial are unlikely to contain any adverse surprises and there is the possibility of an up tick due to the Occulus Quest. You have to ask, why would Merian bother taking the risk?

Al the big buys paid top of the spread
Someone wanted the shares

If you want to see what can be done with avatars just look at the film Bohemian Rhapsody.
Then look at the "how they made it" videos.
You will see that the entire crowd for the Live Air section, bar a few close ups was generated using avatars of people.
Ok, so not computer generated avatars as these social media sites may produce at first, but avatars based on real people, but avatars all the same.
Who is to say that in time we might all be uploading an avatar of ourself, or compiling something from real bits of real people.

Oh dear, what are you doing here marineville, time to go back to nursery school and your £150 trades

Wombles, no way
Shappa your face

Just seen an advert for Sigrid's latest platter on adverts in the Good Morning Britain ad break on ITV.

Seems to me that it is not so long ago that some that post on his BB were wondering who the hell was this young girl that Melody had posted vieos of ?

This by the way included me !

Well it seems that Melody were ahead of the curve.

My admiration goes out to the person making the decision on when to close the Merian's short.
This has bounced up from 4p several times now.
Obviously no appetite to go lower.

My advice:
Close now, take your money and run.

Has anyone looked for/found/come across Facebook funding an App for the Quest in the same way that they are pushing money to Melody VR to develop their App ???

Jimmy, this is like the proverbial duck swimming on a pond. Naff all going on above Everything going on underneath Then it explodes out of the water to take off All the nay sayers exclaim "told you so" All the LTH's breath out slowly and say something quite different

Robidicus - I didn't really see it as losing patience, but more as describing what I see.

It is clear that something is holding the business back as they are not behaving like a normal tech company that has launched its product and so would be seeking to generate interest, sales and a return.

I have searched for other companies that are going to publish non-game/music Apps for the Quest and find almost no competition in MVR's niche, and none with Facebook's backing/alignment/support, call it what you will.

I don't find anything by NextVR to say that they are writing something specifically for the Quest, it doesn't mean that they are not, just that they are not saying much, and as we know they have just let a shedload of people go.

I have found webpages that say that Rift applications will be ported over to the Quest, so that means that NextVR and others will provide competition to MVR with content via their Rift based Apps, but will a ported App be as good as a product specific App ????

Will a Rift app look "old" on the Quest ???

Who knows ? not me.
What I do know is that the Quest promo videos look astounding and that this will be the big play for the industry until leightweight wrap around headsets, something like that suggested in the film Ready Player One come along - we now have bendy glass for mobile phones, so why not.

As I alluded to in my post, the F8 conference at the end of April will probably see that launch of the Quest, product registrations have been done and it seems to be lining up just like the "Go" was lined up. I believe that Melody's product will be front and centre at that launch, otherwise it is just another gamers headset, albeit a good one, to which many would respond....whoopy do.

This may be even why the company is so quiet.
It could be that Facebook have said "be ready for F8, or else", and so all hands have been put the pump to make the product and its supporting package ready, a bit like it was before the initial App release last year.
Just imagine all the things that need to be done to meet Facebooks expectations, it would be understandably quiet from the company on all fronts, whilst we chirp on about this and that.

What follows in May after F8, if Melody make it, is somewhat unknown, but if they launch with the Quest the sp will not be where it is now, whereas if they don't, and they don't say anything, then it is likely that there will be some very serious hat eating going on in my house.

Hence my sign off - May the 4th be with us !!!

Having watched/commented on this board for sometime now I find there is little left to say.

The company has ceeated its product, created content and yet appears not to be monetising them
They have numerous employees but appear to only to make a part time marketing effort
They have stated way back that the App is hardware agnostic, and yet it remains released only on Occulus products
You would think that the senior execs would be banging out the message at every opportunity, but they are not

We can all see that the foundations have been put in place, but what now ?

Is this like the man that built his house behind a wall of hay bales so that nobody could see what was going on until the great reveal !

Are Facebook going to be the local council that then told him to knock it down, by buying it out at a knockdown price ?

It is obvious to me that the sp is down in the dumps because nobody believes this is going anywhere anytime soon, although we may yet be surprised, however the track record is one of grinding through, rather than announcing surprises along the way.

So what next ?

If you ask me, 2 months of not very much until Facebook F8 on April 30 / May 1st and Occulus Quest with Melody as the kingpin non game App on the device.

It could well be that at that time we do indeed say "May the 4th be with us"

To be fair MVR's definition of "coming soon" borders on the geological

I believe that the short-tracker show changes at/after 3:30pm the next trading day after the change happens.

Rumfuddle, I think you expressed the thoughts of many concerning Merian in eloquent fashion

Based on previous dates, anytime in the next 4 to 6 weeks.

Any revenue will be a plus in my view, but they may not split out the contribution from Facebook for the App upgrade, and they may not tell us how much that contribution was, leaving us guessing.

Optimist, the RNS clearly describes the headset as "new Occulus hardware".

No update of the Go or Rift has been trailed anywhere.

The only new FCC product registration made by Facebook pertains to the Quest.

https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/oculus-quest-controller-fcc-filing-1203136137/

If it was the Chinese headset then that is different brand and I think they would have to say.
So, the App update is for the Quest.

What is interesting is they said that the App "may" be made available on other platforms.

By my count the MVR website has been promising availablility or "coming soon" for four other headsets.

So, apart frm redefining what "coming soon" means, it would appear that the MVR App "may" soon be available on all suitable headsets of any relevance.

Jimmy, I have no doubt that "scenario 1" is in play.

But I would like to know how they spend their 3,000 hours every week !!