• kbity@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, the biggest problem with the Quest headsets is that they’re made by Facebook. Sorry, “Meta”. The Quest 2 stand-alone headset would be an obvious recommendation to anyone curious about virtual reality if it weren’t a Mark Zuckerberg product.

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      1 year ago

      Yep. It kills me, but I won’t do it. It otherwise is a nice little piece of tech, but the price of dealing with Facebook is a lot bigger deal to me than the price tag in cash.

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      1 year ago

      The New Quest Pro! Available at only the low low cost of the uncensored live footage of your newborn streamed to Lord Zuck himself!

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      1 year ago

      What if it was all just a distraction all along, made so that people wouldn’t associate every service they’ve bought quite so strongly with their own failing platform.

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    1 year ago

    RIP metaverse. When VR becomes ubiquitous, I hope a sociopathic company like Facebook isn’t in charge of it.

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      The meta verse never made sense anyway. Technology is about making stuff simpler, how is going to a virtual store inside a 3D environment simpler than going to a website? What sort of benefit does it being 3D add?

      It’s just a bunch of extra overhead (both operating and using) and no one will use it. The meta verse would never evolve beyond things like VR Chat.

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        1 year ago

        I think browsing in 3D is a lot more pleasant. I’d be extremely tempted to make myself a virtual library to browse my book library if the Apple Vision Pro resolution ends up being enough to make text crisp enough for comfortable reading. There’s a reason I still go to physical bookstores or library on occasion to browse. It’s different than scrolling a list on a page.

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    1 year ago

    Maybe they realized that Apple’s is so much more premium that whoever would buy the Quest Pro would instead by the Apple Headset.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, but if you’re willing to drop $1k on a non-gaming VR headset you’re probably also willing to drop $3k. Might as well spend the extra and get the premium product if you’re going to pay the premium price (or so the thinking is likely to go).