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Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't think the technology is there yet. As long as people need to wear big bulky goggles and headsets it's not going to take off. Make something that's about as cumbersome as sunglasses and less than $1000 and there might be mass adoption.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    March 2023 they sold 20M Quests. Half as many as PS5. That counts as "taken off" in my book.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wow, I'm shocked it's that high. I've never heard of someone using one.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Everyone in my family has one. We play ping pong. It's cool, you feel like you're in the room with someone even when they are many miles away.

    Having said that, I believe most of the users are minors. Whenever I log into a multilayer game, there are children taking.

    Besides ping pong, there's Best Saber and 3d jigsaw puzzles. Outside of that, I haven't really had much fun outside of occasional shooting / archery.

    It sucks that it's owned by Facebook of course. I deleted my Facebook over 10 years ago now. I had to set it up with my girlfriend's Facebook account.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree that the tech isn't there, but unless we figure out some new physics it's going to be impossible to put enough battery, computing power, and cooling capacity in something the size of sunglasses. So the tech for VR like we really want is at least 20 years away, if not more.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Idk man, if you let go of the requirement of wireless and standalone, we're already there.

    https://www.bigscreenvr.com/

    So I'm expecting there to be a lot more headsets like that next gen.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    This requires an Apple iPhone XR or newer, as the face scan utilizes the TrueDepth sensor.

    Am I wrong in my reading that this hardware product is only available for people who already own and use an iPhone XR or newer? It seemed neat until I got to that bit...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't own one nor do I know anyone who does, but as far as I've understood it from casual Googling the product, you just have to find one to use it to submit a scan of your face so they can mold the thing properly. So it's more like you have to lend an iPhone for 5 minutes from someone/somewhere, which while being annoying, hardly seems like an obstacle to me when considering those.

    Idk why they don't have an app for Android based phones (fuck iPhones) but it's a small-ish company which is making them and I imagine there are things about software development I'm unaware of so I couldn't say "they should just have the app in Google Play store as well" as if it were that simple with 3D-scanning.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    You're right, it's not an insurmountable obstacle, I think I was just feeling petulant about seeing another product with a sign next to it saying basically, "you must be this invested in the Apple ecosystem to ride".

    Let's be real though, it's already a better option than what Apple is offering for $3500, so I'm sure they will get some traction before being bought out.

    Lastly, because you underscored the point I was making, fuck iPhones.

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