They pretty much have a monopoly on standalone VR headsets atm
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bus_factor@lemmy.world 8 hours agoMay I ask why? It seems like a huge risk due to being tethered to a Facebook account which could get banned at any time. Was the price too good to pass up?
Anivia@feddit.org 8 hours ago
bus_factor@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ah. I guess that’s why people were so excited about Valve making one. I’m not really that interested in VR, so I never really evaluated their vs the competition’s offerings.
stephen01king@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
Valve is still not making one that can do AR, so we’re still stuck with either Meta or Pico for that use case.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not entirely true. They’ll have black and white cameras at launch and have an expansion port on the front of the device for potential color cameras in the future.
They just said AR isn’t their focus for this device, not that it isn’t possible.
And I get it - everyone I know that already has XR headsets doesn’t bother with AR as the experiences are limited (and I imagine the union between AR gamers and tidy environments with clear surfaces is pretty small).
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I got it for free like four years ago and have barely used it since