• @[email protected]
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    7 months ago

    Sorry, Mark, so long as Meta is attached to the headset I’m not going to buy it.

    I don’t even let Meta websites into my house. I have all that blocked at the DNS level.

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      I wish I could do that at our house. My wife would lose her shit though along with we need it for events sadly. The one thing FB is good for is groups and events.

    • @Good_morning
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      Exactly, I’d buy a headset from Temu before Id buy something from Meta

  • @[email protected]
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    217 months ago

    I decided to wait for Valve standalone. Even if it never comes out I’d rather keep waiting than get a meta headset.

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      The Valve Index is here already and great. No bullshit like the Quest, just VR that works well. If you have a gaming PC with at least a quad-core and RTX 3060 then you should be good to get started with one. Mine works fine on a 9-year old gaming PC with 6 cores, 16GB RAM, and an RTX 3060TI. The motherboard is that old, the rest of the parts are newer (mostly GPU)

      • Vik
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        137 months ago

        They’re thinking of something that can work unteathered to a PC, like the rumoured valve deckard system

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          Right but you can’t buy one of those, they aren’t on the market. What Valve has currently is excellent already but you can’t walk around town wearing it (as if anyone would need to)

          • Vik
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            17 months ago

            I get you but that’s not what the commenter above is looking for.

            I know the Index is fantastic and I’m truly happy for you, but I can appreciate other people being in the market for high fidelity VR with a substantially lower asking price (along with a lower total cost of ownership as a standalone system).

            We can’t let meta pull ahead in this industry unchecked, and I really hope Valve (or literally anybody else) can step up to this segment in the near future.

      • @[email protected]
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        97 months ago

        I think by standalone they mean ‘no PC’. Like the Quest ones that run the games on themselves.

  • @[email protected]
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    167 months ago

    For someone as apparently intelligent as Mark, it’s amazing how stupid he is.

    It doesn’t matter what you do or say, Mark, I will never buy something produced by or associated with Meta. Don’t care how groundbreaking or revolutionary it might be.

    I see you, Mark. I’ve watched how you operate for the last 20 years, Mark. I’ll never give you a cent.

    • @[email protected]
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      87 months ago

      I hate facebook but i love vr. And it was the only one i could afford. I have it completely blocked off the internet though since i only use it for steamvr. 🥺

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        I feel you, and part of the reason we don’t have access to cheaper and better options is because of Meta’s monopolistic instinct. They bought oculus, which had been actively innovating, instead of competing with them and strengthening the market by developing their own product. It’s not like they didn’t have the money.

        I don’t fault anyone for buying their stuff if it’s cool, my stand is purely a stubborn one at this point. I just won’t touch Meta with a ten foot pole.

    • @[email protected]
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      47 months ago

      a lot of people dont have the same hate for mark that you have, and a lot of people dont even know that meta is facebook. He’s not a good person, but he’s not stupid

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        You can be extremely intelligent and still fucking dumb as rocks. Intelligence in one area doesn’t necessarily equate to intelligence in other areas.

  • @[email protected]
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    97 months ago

    Every time I read about Meta I pray a little more that those rumors about Valve working on a standalone VR headset are true

  • @[email protected]
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    67 months ago

    This must be pandering to shareholders, no company in their right mind would want to compete when Meta is selling their first party headset at a giant loss.

  • Cornpop
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    Will always be a niche product. The general population has no interest in strapping a display to their face. This shit is just 3D tv round 2

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    17 months ago

    Honestly “Microsoft” would have been a perfect brand name for a line of VR gear, if they hadn’t jumped the gun and applied it to software back in the day.