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Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by baroffoos »

mattynice wrote: post #3

All the more reason to consider the HTC Vive or Steam Index if interested in being an early adapter of VR where their achievements can be more collaborative. Side note regarding Portal and other "social hardware", I can't imagine there being user-friendly privacy toggles when facebook owns the complete stack..

Valve has done a pretty good job at standardizing VR tech with OpenVR/SteamVR. All of the headsets except the oculus seem to have really good hardware compatibility. The vive controllers can be used with the pimax hmd, etc.

Facebook seems to be trying really hard to create a lockin with the oculus, if you buy games on the oculus store, you are now forever locked in to only buying oculus hardware from now on.

Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by collias »

baroffoos wrote: post #21
mattynice wrote: post #3

All the more reason to consider the HTC Vive or Steam Index if interested in being an early adapter of VR where their achievements can be more collaborative. Side note regarding Portal and other "social hardware", I can't imagine there being user-friendly privacy toggles when facebook owns the complete stack..

Valve has done a pretty good job at standardizing VR tech with OpenVR/SteamVR. All of the headsets except the oculus seem to have really good hardware compatibility. The vive controllers can be used with the pimax hmd, etc. Facebook seems to be trying really hard to create a lockin with the oculus, if you buy games on the oculus store, you are now forever locked in to only buying oculus hardware from now on.

Thankfully you can use Oculus devices (or at least, the Quest) with the new Link feature to turn the headset into a sort of external display, which is then compatible with SteamVR.

Honestly it's the biggest selling point of the Quest for me, in addition to being able to hack around on it through an adb shell.

Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by kerng »

kerng wrote: post #13

Mark Lucovsky is pretty legendary! Every Windows exe starts with the two bytes ML! EDIT: As others pointed out its actually another Mark, MZ. Lucovsky was the Mark, who Steve Ballmer was throwing chairs around when he said to leave for Google. Still legendary. :)

Ah, thanks for correcting. Microsoft always had too many Marks, Russinovich is another famous one.

Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by MobileVet »

protomyth wrote: post #2

By moving to its own OS, Facebook could have more freedom to bake social interaction — and hopefully privacy — deeper into its devices. Privacy? I expect some amazing detailed & intrusive data gathering.

Seriously, what a ridiculous comment by TechCrunch. Facebook is openly hostile to your privacy, don’t give them an inch.

It would be great if journalists stopped sharing the PR snippets from companies and focused on what they actually do.

Actions should always speak louder than words

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