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Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 (lemmy.nowsci.com)

submitted 7 months ago by fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 21 points 7 months ago

Hopefully, someone is sitting on a root workaround, and will reveal it once the updates stop.

I'd buy a second hand one, if there was a way to use it without any meta involvement.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 months ago

I'm expecting it, tbh

I have a quest 2 and it's actually a FANTASTIC headset, but I want to rip the meta shit out

Not even because they're a gross company (tho they are), I use a burner account with burner info and play in a gray room through a router specifically for my VR (almost completely lag free wireless this way, it works) but because I HATE that they made you have arms in an update and didn't let us turn it off. They're horrid

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

I have a quest 2 and it’s actually a FANTASTIC headset

Yes, because of John Fifth-Dimensional-Being-Pretending-to-be-a-Human Carmack.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

"oh, do you need me to just invent the fundamental technology for a massive sector of computing again? Sure, no problem, have it to ya by Friday"

John Carmack on multiple occasions

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

So they made you join the army?

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

I wish they gave me a firearm

But no, it's a garbage implementation of giving you a digital avatar that displays arms in a first person view by guessing where they must be based off of controller position.

It clearly doesn't use the cams on the device cuz they're bad