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

Post by Gigachad » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 9:51 PM UTC

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I have a Vive and have played a decent number of hours in VR, and overall like it quite a lot. It's really amazing how readily our brain will "adopt" two floating hands as your own body. I'm bullish on the future of VR gaming. But I do think there's a big hurdle, and that's our inner ear. Teleport-based controls are jank but it seems really difficult to prevent motion sickness when using any kind of movement that tra…

From what I know, inner ear stimulation (to manipulate perception of balance) is non-invasive, relatively simple, and well understood. But I haven't seen anyone try combining it with VR yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_vestibular_stimulatio...

Post by rightbyte » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

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The VR enthusiast/dev community has gotten caught in a death spiral when it comes to simulation sickness.. They encourage each other to "get your VR legs" and play/demand/make nausea-inducing games, and it just chases away all the normal human beings who don't want to spend months gently training their bodies to become immune to it (FYI, the way it works is you play until you start to feel a hint of nausea, and stop…

I wonder if becoming used to disagreement between the eye and inner ear in other situations transfers to easier adaptation to VR. When I was little, I'd often attempt to read while in moving vehicles, which quickly and reliably brought on severe motion sickness. I can longer remember the last time that's happened. Cured by repeated exposure? Simply growing up? Maybe because of both at once, involving neuroplasticity…

Post by hasbot » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 10:23 PM UTC

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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…

Post by PaulsWallet » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 10:38 PM UTC

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I talked to someone who used to be at Facebook's reality lab and they said they have very VERY strict controls on user data and no one just has remote access through Oculus cameras including devs but reputation is hard to shake when tied to a company like Facebook.

Oh I’m sure they do. I’m sure Facebook cares deeply about your data and they absolutely would not ever lose it or accidentally give it away. They definitely don’t see the VR devices as a gateway to another frontier on data collection. That’s why they paid billions for Oculus and then spent billions to sell the Quest devices at a loss. Ignore the fact that one of basic features of the Quest is to scan your room and bu…

Post by 14 » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 10:55 PM UTC

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By requiring a Meta account as I recall. Not much of an improvement.

Presumably this would mean if you’re banned on Facebook, that wouldn’t lock you out of your device. That was one of the bigger sticking points at least.