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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away
(news.yahoo.com)
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Well, possibly people have finally been turned off by Zuck Zuck and his creepy-ass avatar doing their combined best to make his "Metaverse" pipe dream as cringeworthy as possible. Seems he can't get it through his head that all we really want to do is play video games (and I guess maybe watch VR porn), and for $1500/999, we can buy an awful lot of game console with change left over for some games, or a pretty significant chunk of normal gaming PC.
I think I'll stick with my Reverb G2. I wouldn't take a Meta/Facebook backed device, nor touch its ecosystem, if they paid me.
I've spent over $1500 on VR (HTC Vive, and Valve Index, plus some accessories for both). I've never been able to talk myself into even a Quest 2 for $200 back when they went on sale shortly before they raised the price due to "supply chain issues." I enjoy VR experiences and I'm personally okay with paying enthusiast prices for hardware that improves the experience, but I want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook's ecosystem, at any price.
This ^ That is all the same exact reasoning I thought of when I purchased my Valve Index this year. Sure, it's older hardware at this point but I want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook's ecosystem as well.
Those are old GPUs you know. You can get a very VR-capable RTX card now from the 30 or 40 series for relatively cheap. 3060TI is doing well for my setup.