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conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

There’s also a huge amount of bad will.

VR/AR are still (yes, even years later) in the tech enthusiast niche, because the actual tech is hard. But a sizable chunk of tech enthusiasts know enough to hate Facebook, hate them specifically in VR because of how they handled their purchase of Oculus, or both.

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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Oh, absolutely. I’d never be willing to use their firmware and I’d be extremely hesitant to give them any money on account of their active role in election manipulation and complicity in political violence.

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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
People in the VR scene also hate Meta because all the eye tracking information is being harvested and sold to ad companies.

Did you know that the pattern your eyes move and what you look at and how fast you look at it and’s WHAT you look at can tell an algorithm how you’re feeling, if you suffer from certain specific mental illnesses or neurodivergence, your age and gender, and your core inner desires and activation triggers? Now give all that info to Facebook. For free.

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