Followups: Facebook dumps virtual reality, Spotify eats Niland, Denuvo still rubbish.

Virtual reality is still rubbish no customer actually wants: Facebook shuts down Oculus Story Studios. Mind you it’s still material for venture capitalists, who are showering Improbable with money. Improbable seems to be angling for non-bogus use cases; they write about what they’re doing technically in a Hacker News discussion. This might turn out not to be terrible!
Spotify just bought Niland, presumably for the music similarity searcher.
No DRM anyone can be bothered to break has a hope: the Denuvo DRM on Prey lasted ten days.