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Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by parkingrift »

dmix wrote: post #183
yonaguska wrote: post #3

As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.

You're missing out, Quest 2 was one of the best purchases I've made in the last year. I also don't think VR is good enough to be worth investing $1k+ into a VR headset like Vive. $300 seemed like a very high return on investment for what I got. Not sure about $400 since I already have one but I'd probably still do it. I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a priv…

>I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a privacy invasion.

You're kidding yourself with that. You gave Facebook literal eyes into your home through an internet connected device. If you don't think Facebook know who you are I have some coins I'd like to sell you.

Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by nomel »

mhh__ wrote: post #186
emadabdulrahim wrote: post #8

I feel like an old grumpy man saying this, but I hate the idea of wearing a device on my face to literally hijack one of the precious senses one has. I'm sure over time I'll look back and laugh at myself for thinking that way.

As opposed to staring at a screen desperately trying to mimic what a VR headset can do much better anyway?

"So, to look left, you grab this thing, move your hand left. To look up you move it forward! It's not 3d, but don't worry, you'll get used to figuring out how far away things are eventually."

"Grandpa, this is stupid".

Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

dmix wrote: post #183
yonaguska wrote: post #3

As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.

You're missing out, Quest 2 was one of the best purchases I've made in the last year. I also don't think VR is good enough to be worth investing $1k+ into a VR headset like Vive. $300 seemed like a very high return on investment for what I got. Not sure about $400 since I already have one but I'd probably still do it. I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a priv…

For me it isn't even so much about the privacy invasion or having to have a Facebook account, it's being locked into one store. PCVR doesn't have that problem.

Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by was_a_dev »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #187
colinmhayes wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the quest 3 is more expensive to produce than the 2 so they’re raising prices now so that they can price the 3 the same as the 2 on launch. They may also want people to wait for the 3 because they feel it’ll do a better job of showcasing vr potential.

Isn't this cutting off your nose to spite your face?

Usually, but Meta already has a timeline for VR into the end of the decade.

They want users to continually be on their latest experience to achieve an eventual platform monopoly

Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by hparadiz »

MichaelCollins wrote: post #182
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VR wouldn’t even be a thing anymore without their efforts. PC Tower VR is a dead end where the complexity and hardware costs will never take it the customer base size that justifies developing non-indie content. I don’t think Valve would have even bothered building Index without the Oculus threat.

> VR wouldn’t even be a thing anymore without their efforts. As long as Facebook owns it, it may as well not be a thing to me. Facebook "saving" VR is a utterly pyrrhic victory. If facebook owns it then it wasn't worth saving.

Same. I don't trust Zuck with the ecosystem so I'll just sit it out. I might get an Index one day.

Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by nomel »

emadabdulrahim wrote: post #63
rgovostes wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you ever wear headphones?

I do, but I'm not entirely deaf when I wear them. I can hear my surroundings easily if I wanted to. Is there a mode in those VR headsets where one can see what's in front of them without taking them off? I'm ignorant about the tech of VR.

> where one can see what's in front of them without taking them off

For quest, you double tap anywhere on the headset (it detects the physical tap) to enable passthrough mode. The game goes away, but you can see. Some games let you see through, but that's limited to games where having something float in front of you in your real room makes sense, rather than being somewhere else.

Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by [deleted] »

asciimov wrote: post #92

Well that's one way to kill platform adoption momentum. My biggest problem with VR is I've never been able to use it. I've been to One Microsoft store about 3 years ago that had some VR setup, but they refused to let me try it out. I don't understand why Meta doesn't have these to try out in stores. I'm not gonna buy something I can't see, touch, and try first.

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Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by permo-w »

parkingrift wrote: post #201
dmix wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're missing out, Quest 2 was one of the best purchases I've made in the last year. I also don't think VR is good enough to be worth investing $1k+ into a VR headset like Vive. $300 seemed like a very high return on investment for what I got. Not sure about $400 since I already have one but I'd probably still do it. I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a priv…

>I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a privacy invasion. You're kidding yourself with that. You gave Facebook literal eyes into your home through an internet connected device. If you don't think Facebook know who you are I have some coins I'd like to sell you.

also last time I tried, facebook demanded ID to sign up an account

Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by FractalHQ »

yonaguska wrote: post #3

As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.

I bought two recently for my parents and they don’t use them. I tried to use them but there are no real VR games to play. All of the games are arcade-style mini games with 20 year-old graphics. They get boring after a couple minutes. Huge disappointment!

Around 10 years ago I gave up on VR and decided to wait for the VR game market to grow. It was a huge bummer to learn that nothing has changed after all this time.

I think it will take another decade or two for hardware power and costs to catch up to modern game engines.

For me, the only VR experience worth experiencing right now is probably a $1000 Valve Index with Half-Life Alyx running on my $4000 PC.

Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD

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Post by dougmwne »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #187
colinmhayes wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the quest 3 is more expensive to produce than the 2 so they’re raising prices now so that they can price the 3 the same as the 2 on launch. They may also want people to wait for the 3 because they feel it’ll do a better job of showcasing vr potential.

Isn't this cutting off your nose to spite your face?

I think not really. Quest 2 is not feature complete because it lacks core social features like color passthrough cameras, eye tracking and facial expression tracking. I’m guessing Meta thinks those features are so critical to their Metaverse experience that they are willing to forgo sales in the short term.
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