Comment on Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’
angrywaffle@piefed.social 1 day ago
I’ve always been mildly interested in VR, but never wanted to invest in a data collector from Facebook. Maybe Valve can make me buy one of these.
The index is my favorite but it’s pretty dated. They just stopped production on the vive pro 2, and quest is technically the best bang for your buck but it is HOT GARBAGE to use with steam and support is actively harmful instead of helpful. Hopefully the deckard is good.
Honestly though vr is fantastic. Blade and sorcery, into the radius, Pavlov vr, contractors, literally any compatible flight sim. Truly not a gimmick.
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Yeah - VR sounds like a nice thing, but everything about it is just not there. It’s too expensive for something to play around with and buying into Facebook is also not something I want
You can find an older wired VR headset for cheap in the used market. Or even a Q2 if you are feeling fancier. Apart from lenses and resolution they are functionally identical to newer ones.
My first game was Superhot VR and I instantly fell in love.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember being excited for the Oculus Quest. Then Facebook bought it and my interest in it went to zero. Even now, whenever someone talks about different VR headests, ‘Facebook’ is always put in the negative column of their various things.
I’m pretty excited about the new Steam VR heasdest that is fully self-contained, though. :)
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I view VR adoption the same as IoT and smart home adoption; the greed and narcissism of capitalism killed the markets before they could even be established.
Just like I will never buy a monitor or TV locked to a specific corporation, I will never buy a VR headset that is not interoperable with any computer; especially one that requires an account or internet connection to operate.
Archer@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Home Assistant is great for home automation and it’s open source!
JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Yes but you must buy stuff that is compatible with it, or use DNS tricks to make the stuff you have not phone home… It’s doable but definitely not painless. Also you must maintain your lights, on top of everything else…
barryamelton@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Indeed. Looking forward to the new Valve headset, which is just a normal Arm pc with a linux distro. Given that they push for upstreaming, i have quite the hopes to just be able to install any linux arm distro in the future.