Facebook’s VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away::Last fall, Meta-formerly-Facebook unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, a long-rumored, higher-end follow-up to the company’s best-selling Quest 2 VR headset. The sleek device, which initially went on sale for an eye-watering $1,500, has really struggled to catch on since then, just as we predicted at the time. And, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is […]
I am interested in VR. Not interested in proprietary spyware and wearable webcam from Facebook :/
Soon enough they’ll start recording your brainwaves tol
Capitalism ruins everything.
If I’m putting something over my head it won’t be from the greediest tech company ever.
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
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.
Iirc these headsets require your Facebook login to function at all?
Nope nope nope.
They tried to speed run the enshittification process.
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.
$1500 also buys a lot of porn (or so I’ve heard) especially as free is a pretty low price.
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.
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.
What extras do you recommend for the Index? I have the standard kit with 2 base stations and controllers.
The big ones for me are a cover/replacement for the fabric face gasket, prescription lens inserts, and for long play sessions a fan insert for the headset can be a nice to have, but I don’t run mine all the time since sometimes it’s just adding noise. The face gasket has probably been the hardest thing to get right, since a lot of third-party ones either don’t have enough padding, or are hard to swap in and out, so I kinda prefer having a full extra magnetic insert so I can easily change between the original which is most comfortable for me, and something else that I’m less worried about sweating all over for more active games.
Those are good suggestions. I made prescription lens inserts for my wife by simply removing the ear-holder arms from an old pair of her glasses, just leaving the frame and lenses which fits well inside the lens area
Uh, the Pro wasn’t aimed for that, you twit.
We’re broke as fuck, we can not afford that shit. Money is better spent elsewhere than a VR “workstation”.
I’d use VR for work if I could afford it. But not from the take all you personal dada and sell it company.
Also their cheaper option is great for 1/3 or less of the price
And for 500 it’s getting even better than all other options next month.
For real. Even if I did have enough money to go buy something that’s that much I’d rather get literally anything else
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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I’d also like to subscribe to strip club management tips, please.
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.
No shit. The platform is basically just a string of rug pulls over your lifetime.
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.
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.
Shut up and hate the zuck with the crowd. How dare you question the groupthink hate train.
The goal has never been to sell 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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I never knew it existed. It sounds extremely stupid.
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 any mainstream audience will be getting over it pretty soon.
Looking for the place so I can have my free, “literally” given away VR headset.
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.
Your username makes this comment way funnier to me. 🤣
BTW I use Arch 🤫🤫🤫
The Quest 2 sells fine. The Quest Pro is for an audience that doesn’t exist at $1500. Also, Apple’s VR headset might as well not exist due to how expensive it is.
I didn’t even realize Apple had a VR headset
Just realized that I don’t even see people clowning on Zuck’s VR fixation these days.
I think Twitter has just taken up all of the oxygen lately.
Yeah, not even if you literally paid me. Fuck Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat/Oculus/etc…
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.
You could not pay me… I’m not even mad at Facebook, fuck you so much Palmer Lucky!!!
Nobody wants to buy this generation’s Nintendo Virtual Boy.
I want one! Just not from Zuck
