I was quite sad when I crossed Occulus off my list following the acquisition.
I would have loved one.
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If the cuts are deep, they could hamper Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s project to build augmented and virtual reality products enabling access to a set of immersive virtual
VR is interesting to me. I have zero desire for a facebook product, I don’t care how good it is.
Zuckerberg has to realize he, as the messenger, is poisoning the future he wants to exist.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 11 months ago
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 11 months ago
This is the core problem. The overlap between people who use facebook and people who are interested in VR is not very big. Most people on facebook just want to see pictures of their grandchildren and are hardly the kinds of people who would be early adopters of technologies like this. VR enthusiasts on the other hand simply have no interest in whatever kinds of shit Zuckerberg has to offer. Some might hold their noses and try it anyway, but you’re just making your potential userbase smaller and smaller.
This idiotic “metaverse” thing has always been a hilarious joke and is doomed to fail. This has been obvious ever since it was announced. Zuckerberg got lucky with facebook turning out to be a great way to creep on^W^W keep in touch with friends and other contacts. He’s not a visionary and doesn’t have a clue how to build a new thing people want from scratch. But he thinks he does cause he got lucky with facebook.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I worked at a university years ago and saw some VR prototypes for things like medical/surgical training, remote interaction (remote surgery, hazmat, etc) and other things. Very cool uses of the technology where it makes a lot of sense.
Seeing the VR used there the way it was makes me completely uninterested in using it for any sort of social/personal use any time soon. VR clearly has a lot of niche applications, but not as a general social/entertainment platform.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m interested in VR, but the cost of decent, non-oculus hardware is prohibitive.
H2207@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the Quest 3 now has DRM and a bunch of other intrusive components, so that’s definitely off the table.
Pico looks promising, will have to do more research.
HidingCat@kbin.social 11 months ago
Isn't Pico even worse? It's by Bytedance, the Chinese company behind TikTok.
H2207@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is it? Yeah maybe not then.
HidingCat@kbin.social 11 months ago
If this is what you were thinkng of, then yea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICO_4
I'd rather get a Quest 3, at least you can use a separate Meta account now.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I was bummed that they bought oculus, but now they’ve advanced the tech so much and made it so clear to the market that people want unrestricted vrc that I’m hoping the whole debacle jumpstarts a stream deck equivalent, just a headset with decent tech running on open source software that just works.
That’s why the oculus was so good, they just released it it developers play with it, no logins, no required software environments, just creative fun
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m with you. I want Meta to keep heavily developing in the VR and AR space, but not so I can buy products from them. I just want the increase in new products and innovation from other companies that would come with that development.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yea, exactly. I searched around a little and it looks like that’s actually working out, there’s some tiny companies offering 4K VR glasses for 500 bucks now; it’s not exactly an open environment again like in the heyday, but at least it isn’t tethered to a massive data mining corporation.
I’m not sure if there are open environment alternatives. Actually, I didn’t even know 4K had gotten so cheap already, It was encouraging to hear about all the little companies making new goggles.
I loved using the, I think it was 1080p Oculus DK2 for watching movies and playing games, so I can’t wait to be blown away by one of these 4K kits just a few years later.
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think an open alternative would become more likely as VR becomes more adopted. While I don’t like Meta, they are doing a good job at increasing adoptions, and that’s something that I’m certainly happy about.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was ready to buy a vr headset until I realized the only one under 1000 was meta.
Nope.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same. I even tried it and it’s really cool, and at that price point I would… but meta. I even heard at one point they forced you to log in with your facebook account to use it. Wtf? I don’t even have one. So basically I’ll wait for the valve index 2.0. VR is not mature yet and they all have quirks and trade offs.
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It sucks, because I’ve listened to a ton of interviews with him discussing VR/AR and I actually think he is super interested in the tech and is doing pretty incredible stuff in the space. But the blatant disregard for people’s personal privacy and Facebook/Social Media’s destructive history prevents me from trusting Meta in this area and many others. What’s sad is that Zuck actually is pretty damn smart, and I think he’s one of the few billionaires that really understands tech. They’ve been open sourcing things and just getting better overall in a lot of ways but at the end of the day the trust isn’t there.
Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I loved the CV1 oculus. The moment Facebook integration started happening I noped the fuck out of there. Also can’t stand overly proprietary environments. Acquiescence to researchers like yan lecun would be the only reason I don’t absolutely detest meta at this point.
detalferous@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It would have been less bitter if they hadn’t promised that Facebook would never be required or integrated at the time Facebook bought them… just before they made it an integrated requirement.
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At least they reversed it, but they probably still waited for most people to give in and make a Facebook account. I still log in with an Oculus account.
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Love my CV1. My quest 2 gets more use since it’s wireless, but I’ll never not love the CV1
eee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
VR is potentially cool, but meta is building a version of Second life that has less privacy and more monetization. Hard pass