Software has to run on the Quest, which costs $300 delivered.
Why does Meta Quest – Horizon Worlds look so terible?
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#12The Oculus/Meta Quest 2 runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2. That chip's GPU, the Adreno 650, has a pixel fill rate of 14 GP/s. Compare this to a GPU like the NVidia RTX 3090, which has a fill rate of 190 GP/s.
Lighting, textures, transparency, and many of the effects that make things look good in modern games, at the resolution and framerate required for smooth VR, can't currently be done on a $400 headset.
At least in terms of the cartoonish graphics, it seems to me like a case of "fast, cheap, good, pick two".
[1] https://chipguider.com/?gpu=adreno-650-645-mhz
[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090...
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#13Even if the metaverse looked good, which is doesn't, the entire development is a waste of time, resources, and human talent. The idea of extracting money from individuals for goods which don't exist or provide utility, is appalling. If the metaverse ultimately becomes popular and revenue-generating, it will be a sad day for humanity.
> extracting money from individuals for goods which don't exist or provide utility
It’s already a billion dollar industry.
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#14I think the recent metaverse push is well compared with a certain search company’s attempt to become a social network.
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#15It's a virtual office park running on low end hardware. I don't think anybody is enjoying making it, so not that much effort goes into making it look nice.
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#16Hardware limitations of the headset most likely
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#17I have a theory that it's all a facade, and Facebook is using the metaverse to attract investors / publicity and/or hide funding. Either that or Zuck / Facebook execs are just in a massive echo chamber. Just like crypto enthusiasts. Yeah it looks bad to us but they're so deluded they literally don't realize.
I would argue HN is the biggest echo chamber in tech. The hive mind is very strong here
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#18One issue is that viewing VR on 2d is incomparably worse than experiencing on a VR set. The feeling of presence makes up for the bad graphics. You feel much more connected to content in VR than you do with a AAA game on a projector, despite it's low poly look.
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#19What do you think about Roblox and Minecraft then?
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#20I have a theory that it's all a facade, and Facebook is using the metaverse to attract investors / publicity and/or hide funding. Either that or Zuck / Facebook execs are just in a massive echo chamber. Just like crypto enthusiasts. Yeah it looks bad to us but they're so deluded they literally don't realize.
> Either that or Zuck / Facebook execs are just in a massive echo chamber. I know people who work at Facebook, and based on my conversations with them, it is definitely this one.
The emperor has no pants.