Oculus and Facebook have come under fire again for a series of jokes about Big Brother and the Masons accidentally hidden inside retail Oculus Touch controllers.
Earlier today, Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell made a statement on Twitter regarding several “easter eggs” [sic] intended for prototypes that had accidentally made their way into a production batch of Oculus Touchmotion controllers. In his three-tweet thread, Mitchell details the nature of the Easter eggs, and the intent behind them.
“Unfortunately, some ‘easter egg’ labels meant for prototypes accidentally made it onto the internal hardware for tens of thousands of Touch controllers,” Mitchell said. The “Big Brother is watching” and “Hi iFixit! We see you” labels cited by Mitchell appear to have been isolated to dev kits – early versions of hardware shipped to developers interested in working with Oculus Touch – while the “This Space for Rent” and “The Masons Were Here” can supposedly be found inside “tens of thousand” retail Oculus Touch controllers.
