Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return

• n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So they want to be the Microcrap of the VR world?

  Nah I’m good, let me know when we get a Linux of the VR world

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  • FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Steam VR not good enough for ya?

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    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its probably great but when you need to set up a specific room, it makes it inaccessible for most people

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ??? You don’t need a specific room. Quest doesn’t need any beacons or wires.

        I don’t like Facebook, never had a Facebook account and refused to buy their VR until they removed the Facebook account requirement 2 years ago.

        But the hardware is excellent for the price. Facebook is selling the hardware at a loss and making it up in software sales. So you are hurting Facebook by buying their hardware and using it with Steam.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t exist yet.

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  • k_tx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That would be Valve‘s Deckard, I suppose. Would be nice if that would materialize at some point soon.

    But even a „windows equivalent“ HorizonOS would be an improvement in the standalone headset space if that meant I could choose between HMD vendors and carry over all my software.

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  • Amir@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meta Horizon OS is running on Linux under the hood lol

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    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is not what I was referring to. Meta loves to invade our privacy like Microcrap

      Sadly SteamVR needs a large open space to work effectively which makes it inaccessible to the vast majority.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        SteamVR is a software store. It has nothing to do with whether the hardware needs beacons in the room or wires.

        You can play SteamVR racing sims at your desk. If it’s a standing game, you push a button and then draw virtual borders on the floor wherever you are to define the play space.

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