Comment on Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 day agoI 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 22 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…
Archer@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Well yeah but if you get fully offline sensors you buy them and no subscription for the life of the hardware. More upfront work sure, but cost effective and best of all not dependent on a large monopoly tech company who will jack up rates every year
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.