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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away (news.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away::Last fall, Meta-formerly-Facebook unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, a long-rumored, higher-end follow-up to the company's best-selling Quest 2 VR headset. The sleek device, which initially went on sale for an eye-watering $1,500, has really struggled to catch on since then, just as we predicted at the time. And, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is […]

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[–] Buddahriffic 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could release the best possible VR hardware that puts your body into a dream state and allows you to experience things fully in VR for $99 and I still wouldn't touch it if meta, fb, or zuckberg has anything to do with it.

[–] Not_Alec_Baldwin 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iirc these headsets require your Facebook login to function at all?

Nope nope nope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They fixed that. Still need to make a meta account but it's not Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely that is the exact same thing?

[–] Callendor 3 points 1 year ago

Yup its exactly the same

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. The Facebook thing was upsetting folks mainly because they would get banned from Facebook and lose their oculus.

[–] grue 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Needing any account to use hardware I own is a 100% deal-breaker.