Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away

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• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am interested in VR. Not interested in proprietary spyware and wearable webcam from Facebook :/

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  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Soon enough they’ll start recording your brainwaves tol

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    • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Elongated muskrat licks its lips in the distance

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  • MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Capitalism ruins everything.

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I’m putting something over my head it won’t be from the greediest tech company ever.

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  • phx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Meh. If they’ve still got some free ones to give out I’ll take it.

    But in all seriousness, the Quest 2 is pretty good hardware, especially for the price. The problem is that Meta tried to build an ecosystem around monetization and then bring people in, rather than building something that appeals to most people and still allows them to profit. Kinda the opposite of the Facebook model really, which became a defacto online community and kinda kept the monetization a little quieter or behind the scenes for a long time

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They could release the best possible VR hardware that puts your body into a dream state and allows you to experience things fully in VR for $99 and I still wouldn’t touch it if meta, fb, or zuckberg has anything to do with it.

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    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wonder: Did the people who successfully pulled off the Facebook strategy get replaced by dumber, greedier ones, did they get overruled by dumber, greedier decision-makers, did they get overconfident and thought their current market position would let Meta get away with it, or did they get lucky in the first place and fail to take any notes on why it worked?

      Corporations tend to run on “if it works, why change?” so mixing up your entire strategy to this degree seems like it must’ve been a deliberate decision. I’m just curious who made that decision, and by what reasoning.

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They tried to speed run the enshittification process.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, possibly people have finally been turned off by Zuck Zuck and his creepy-ass avatar doing their combined best to make his “Metaverse” pipe dream as cringeworthy as possible. Seems he can’t get it through his head that all we really want to do is play video games (and I guess maybe watch VR porn), and for $1500/999, we can buy an awful lot of game console with change left over for some games, or a pretty significant chunk of normal gaming PC.

  I think I’ll stick with my Reverb G2. I wouldn’t take a Meta/Facebook backed device, nor touch its ecosystem, if they paid me.

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  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    $1500 also buys a lot of porn (or so I’ve heard) especially as free is a pretty low price.

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  • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve spent over $1500 on VR (HTC Vive, and Valve Index, plus some accessories for both). I’ve never been able to talk myself into even a Quest 2 for $200 back when they went on sale shortly before they raised the price due to “supply chain issues.” I enjoy VR experiences and I’m personally okay with paying enthusiast prices for hardware that improves the experience, but I want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook’s ecosystem, at any price.

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    • Jastas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This ^ That is all the same exact reasoning I thought of when I purchased my Valve Index this year. Sure, it’s older hardware at this point but I want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook’s ecosystem as well.

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    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What extras do you recommend for the Index? I have the standard kit with 2 base stations and controllers.

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  • stigmata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Uh, the Pro wasn’t aimed for that, you twit.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’re broke as fuck, we can not afford that shit. Money is better spent elsewhere than a VR “workstation”.

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  • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also their cheaper option is great for 1/3 or less of the price

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    • stigmata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And for 500 it’s getting even better than all other options next month.

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d use VR for work if I could afford it. But not from the take all you personal dada and sell it company.

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    • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would use it for work, except our tech stack is still stuck in the 1990s…

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  • Secret300@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For real. Even if I did have enough money to go buy something that’s that much I’d rather get literally anything else

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For that price I can buy a used ThinkPad AND set it up for work in a literal strip club. Thats the price tag.

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• stigmata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the dumbest take on what’s happening. The Quest 3 is better than the Pro and it comes out next month. We don’t need the Pro anymore. Some of y’all need to use some critical thinking. Roblox also just recently got a lot of attention towards it from Meta; it’s not a coincidence these were Roblox devs that the Pros were given to.

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  • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shut up and hate the zuck with the crowd. How dare you question the groupthink hate train.

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  • June@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Idk, I want those pro controllers

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t take anything from Facebook, no matter if it was free or if I was paid to take it. They’re toxic as a service and as a company, I want nothing to do with them.

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  • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the thing. Anyone who cares about cutting edge (read: flawed, unproven) tech is unlikely to be messing about on FB. More likely they do not associate any positive feelings with anything that you might chose to attach to FB.

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  • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No shit. The platform is basically just a string of rug pulls over your lifetime.

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• iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No one is going to buy a pro VR set from meta, lol. That’s like going to apple bees with $1000 instead of a Michelin Star restaurant.

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  • XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apple Bees

    iBees

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    • JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Would you like to go on a date with me to Apple Bees?

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  • kronkadoop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But why is Michelin giving stars to restaurants. Shouldn’t they stick to tires?

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    • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The more stars a restaurant has, the more it is worth it to put wear and tear on your tires in order to drive there.

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    • MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why does an Irish brewery track world records? Shouldn’t they stick to beer?

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed. It sucks the Steam Index and HTC offerings are so expensive still, but they are top notch and they’ll do anything and everything you need them to.

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• MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The goal has never been to seel VR head sets, the goal is to have 1Billion people on VR. The money would come from the monopoly they would have over selling software through their app store. Same way Google and Apple have a monopoly on who sells through their app stores. This has been zucks stated goal from the start

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• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No shit…the day my occulus rift got bought and whored out by Facebook was the day I stopped using it.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mine too. My OG Rift is still sitting in a box in my basement. I don’t even feel right selling it on, since I’d just be saddling the next user with the same bullshit.

    It’s fine anyway, since for the purposes I use it for my Reverb is much better anyway.

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  • banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I kickstarted Oculus and I don’t even know where my CV1 is now. It was always a pain to use and made me motion sick, the immersive aspect could be cool but it was actually more of a pain being that closed off from your surroundings. The sensory immersion always seemed like a crutch for games that had no emotional or story component, which is actually more important for immersion.

    It also didn’t provide a relaxing gaming experience for me. I like to sit back with a snack and a cup of tea and zone out on a game for a bit. With VR I either had to prepare beforehand, or have this weird thing where I had to remember where in the game world I had to reach to find my real world snack or drink. It’s also just an ordeal to take the thing on and off. A regular game just one button, go let my dog out, back in. VR it’s a chore just to get situated.

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I never knew it existed. It sounds extremely stupid.

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  • sugartits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    VR today is what 3D TV was 10 years ago: the fad has peaked and now the sales are starting to decline.

    It will still have it’s niche, but people will be getting over it pretty soon.

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    • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      VR was the future of entertainment when I was still in college, and I graduated in the previous millennium.

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The fad will past much like with the invention of internet.

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    • nosurprises@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I disagree. 3D TV is nothing compared to VR. VR is an absolutely incredible thing. It provided me the best gaming experience I’ve had in 19 years (from Hal-Life 2 to Half-Life Alyx) The issue is that you need the a good headset and a very expensive hardware to enjoy it, that’s one limitation. Because of that, there are not enough players and developers don’t want to spend money developing AAA-games for such a small market.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve found the idea that modern VR is a “fad” comes from people with limited VR experience. It’s not their fault, since cheap consumer VR like the standalone quest headsets is mostly limited to what amounts to the equivalent of mobile games – they’re toys.

      I own a relatively expensive setup and have experienced the top tier of what consumer VR has to offer: it’s incredibly impressive. But that also highlights the issues. Quality consumer VR is expensive, fiddly, and currently has an extremely limited/niche number of worthwhile games and experiences.

      The reality is the current tech is really the first generation of practical consumer VR with capabilities beyond “headache inducing novelty”. It’ll never replace “2D”, it’ll still needs to come down in price, but it’s hardly a “fad”.

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    • DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I loved my 3D monitor when playing games like Fallout NV and Skyrim, because I could just sit down, put on some glasses, and play the game as normal. But I can’t get used to wearing a heavy, hot, giant pair of goggles to play a game. Plus the learning curve was entirely unnecessary, and the lack of any straight 3D support for existing games is unforgivable.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looking for the place so I can have my free, “literally” given away VR headset.

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• dbilitated@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I find it so perplexing they released a “premium” version with barely improved resolution.

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  • JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The main problem with the Pro is that it completely fails at the thing it was primarily marketed for: AR passthrough.

    The cameras are so bad that when you use video passthrough, everything is blurry. It’s completely unusable. No one will ever use it for productivity tasks in its current form. Meta should have just focused on making a high end gaming version because they failed at making it usable for anything business related.

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• exohuman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Queat sells fine. The Queat Pro is for an audience that doesn’t exist at $1500.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I didn’t even realize Apple had a VR headset

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• iesou@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ok I agree with all that sentiment, but in the article I only saw a $500 price drop, were they ever free or are you taking the world literally figuratively?

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  • moormaan@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is referring to that Roblox developer conference. But yeah, somewhat click baity as people might be hoping to get one for cheap.

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• WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Valve Index is much better device.

  Also Zucc can go fuck hinself. Maybe he will find a privacy, because he stores it in his asshole.

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  • raldone01@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your username makes this comment way funnier to me. 🤣

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    • WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      BTW I use Arch 🤫🤫🤫

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• negativeyoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just realized that I don’t even see people clowning on Zuck’s VR fixation these days.

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  • Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think Twitter has just taken up all of the oxygen lately.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, not even if you literally paid me. Fuck Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat/Oculus/etc…

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  • mrcleanup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s too bad because the hardware and software so far have been on point. The moment Facebook bought Oculus, I knew it was over, at least for me.

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• Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nobody wants to buy this generation’s Nintendo Virtual Boy.

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  • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I want one! Just not from Zuck

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    • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If it’s really free then it’s worth investigating to hack it to something open and privacy-respecting.

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• specfreq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could not pay me… I’m not even mad at Facebook, fuck you so much Palmer Lucky!!!

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• joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No it’s “literally” been reduced to $1000.

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  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And now, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is literally resorting to giving them away for free: Attendees of this year’s developer conference for the global gaming platform Roblox each got a free Meta Quest Pro

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• reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel so dumb for buying an index, I barely use it.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ll take a Quest again for free. Gimme.

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  • VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Should’ve gone to the Roblox developer conference lol

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh that’s the catch? I have to be a Roblox dev? 🤢

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