So they no longer feel they need to subsidize it because there are no competitors in the segment and they sold enough to maintain the ecosystem?
Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
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>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.
Not to mention they can now Id you based off your retina scan. They can also profile your house and products you use in your house. Facebook is reckless with data. Just read up on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. They were even sharing facebook messenger conversations with third party data consumers.
The quest 2 does not have an inward facing camera pointing at your iris.
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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…
My Quest 2 runs glorified arcade games with 20 year-old graphics. What games are you playing that you enjoy for more than 5 minutes? Beat saber and VR-Chat bore me to death.
I logged hundreds of hours in Demeo. Also enjoyed Puzzling Places and walkabout golf.
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#224Earlier 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…
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.
You can play any of your steam vr games on the quest 2.
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Lol exactly. Really wanted to play Half Life / Alex but not about to give Meta any money … absolutely not going to use a facebook account to use a VR device.
Alyx is probably one of the greatest gaming experiences I've had... but I was also able to borrow a Vive from a friend to play it. I'm a Half-Life nut so I would have bought a headset anyway, but I'm glad I haven't bought a Quest.
I've ranted about this several time on hn but Alyx was a huge disappointment to me. I did it on an index. The fakeness and heavy hand holding of the combat pulled out any sense of immersion for me.
Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#226Earlier 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…
My Quest 2 runs glorified arcade games with 20 year-old graphics. What games are you playing that you enjoy for more than 5 minutes? Beat saber and VR-Chat bore me to death.
- Blade and Sorcery
- Star Wars Vader Immortal, is so good I can only compare it to a Disneyland ride.
- Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners
Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#227Earlier 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…
My Quest 2 runs glorified arcade games with 20 year-old graphics. What games are you playing that you enjoy for more than 5 minutes? Beat saber and VR-Chat bore me to death.
Demeo and Echo Arena are great if you have friends that also have a Quest 2 you can play with. I'm past the age where I want want to risk the enjoyment of my limited gaming time to the random match maker gods.
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#228Sold my barely used Quest 2 a few weeks ago and had a real hard time getting even $235 for it.
Only got $150 for mine last week after dodging scammers on fb marketplace. Wished I woulda waited!
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#229Not worth it, as somehow who owns the quest 2. The runtime performance is garbage with frequent hitches in frame rate. The in-game resolution is poor with many games having extremely low texture quality and "jaggies" which could be solved with some sort of anti-aliasing. There are also barely any games worth to play in VR, the ecosystem just isn't there yet to warrant a VR purchase, especially at this price. VR exper…
I have a Quest 2 and I've not noticed framerate hitches with Beat Saber. But I do a fair bit of wireless streaming off of PC (but not Beat Saber), and one of the things that surprises me is that it seems like battery life is worse when streaming from PC than when the Quest 2 is doing its own rendering. In any case the battery life does leave a bit to be desired. I expect the Quest 3 to be not much faster, but to have…
Eh, I still use a Rift I bought off a friend, which requires a USB3 and HDMI for itself plus 3x USB3 for the base stations. While this is a tragically more complicated setup than I'd like, and getting all three base stations to behave was painful, I can't say that the cables themselves have really given me any trouble.
Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#230I assume that Meta is done subsidizing the sales of the Quest. They have likely sold about 10 million units at a loss. I wonder if they have decided that the Quest is not yet the feature complete product that will run whatever they want the metaverse to be. Quest was basically an experiment and it seems they have learned what they need to. Their next headset, the Quest Pro, will have eye and face tracking cameras wit…
Alternatively, they are projecting reduction in advertising revenue due to recession and feel they cant take the hit the same way anymore but would have continued if everything else remained the same.
or due to the Digital Markets Act