Listen pal - Do you know how hard it is to make legs for a wii-like avatar?! We need another 8 billion.

Cutting spending by 20% while not reducing output will definitely accomplish that, too!

The tech in general just isn't good enough to do that much more. It's like having a coal powered steam engine and then saying you'll build a formula 1 car with it. They thought that with throwing enough money at the wall, a few breakthroughs in tech would fall out, but it doesn't work like that. If you're very lucky you hit one breakthrough, but they needed a few.

Maybe you shouldn't have made it ~~so shit~~

Let's hope Meta sinks every last dime of their profit into "the next big thing" that is their VR division

That wouldn't be better for the company. They probably don't make money on selling the hardware.

Same sentiment except additionally I will never buy anything from Facebook because they are radicalizing people.

Not going to buy an Apple Vision either if it won't behave as a generic screen for any OS.

I am utterly sick of the account requirement and proprietary connector bullshit from every company.

I think they don't require that anymore. It's a "Meta login" which can be separate from Facebook. At least for Quest devices.

Holy shit, give me just one billion per year and I'll build you a sexier failure.

Oculus was created by Palmer Lucky.

Palmer Lucky's new company is making AI drones and roboos for the military.

Nothing of value was lost.

keep in mind meta didnt make occulus, they bought it out. Oculus is just on the list of silicon valley startups that suceeded in getting bought out and profited from. (of the 10x more that fail)

They didn't make shit. They did what Google loves to do and they bought a highly successful, incredibly progressive company. And now it's shit, just like alllll the others that got bought out by big names.

Too bad that it will turn into a brick once meta decides to axe their VR department.

The Xreal Air~, or the just-being-released Xreal Air 2 Ultra, is potentially that.

Oled displays and cameras for tracking objects and hands.

Edit: also just saw this

Part of me agrees and part of me doesn’t.

I don’t know a kid who doesn’t have at least a Quest 2. I have four brother in laws aged 11-16 and every time I go over there at least two of them are in the basement rocking the headset. My neighbor is on his every day. My daughter has the Quest 2, full body trackers, and a beefy gaming PC almost exclusively dedicated to VR. The kids are all in, seriously.

I’m 38. I have a Quest 2 but I also have two toddlers and an infant (in a couple weeks anyway). I haven’t turned my Quest on in about a year. I got pretty heavy into Pavlov for a while, but here’s where the failure comes in for VR being mainstream and widely adopted. I can’t play and watch my children. I have to ask my wife to take on all of the responsibility just so I can play, and I don’t feel good about that so I just don’t play.

It isn’t the same as something like a Steam Deck. I can put it down and get back into it easily while also keeping an eye on the world around me. I can put my kids on my lap and they can watch me play if they want to. You just can’t do that in VR. It completely disengages you from your surroundings. It isn’t easy to jump in and out of it because you have to be trapped to a dedicated space with your eyes turned off to the world.

I love VR, but not enough to pull myself entirely out of my life to play. I think most people face that issue.

It’s a nonissue when you’re a teenager on summer break with no responsibilities. There’s just no room in a busy life for VR.

I’d like to see it succeed. I’d like to see it come to a point where you can somehow keep your real space visible, if only on a monitor in the corner of a high res display. I love it, I just can’t use it.