Yeah, that’s it. It wasn’t having your fascist, boot-licking CEO show up wearing the stupidest looking shades that made investors cringe and look for the door. Cause we all know Zuck looks cool and people want to emulate him, right? He’s not a jackass in a curly mop.
Maybe next they should have Elon wear them. We can just go down the line having stupid-looking billionaires take turns modeling these things and suck the whole industry dry of any investor money by mid-year. Who should go third? Oh, I know! Sam Altman with his two popped collars. I can’t wait. What a trio of clowns. And that’s just who I thought of off the top of my head.
I’ve always been mildly interested in VR, but never wanted to invest in a data collector from Facebook. Maybe Valve can make me buy one of these.
The index is my favorite but it’s pretty dated. They just stopped production on the vive pro 2, and quest is technically the best bang for your buck but it is HOT GARBAGE to use with steam and support is actively harmful instead of helpful. Hopefully the deckard is good.
Honestly though vr is fantastic. Blade and sorcery, into the radius, Pavlov vr, contractors, literally any compatible flight sim. Truly not a gimmick.
Yeah - VR sounds like a nice thing, but everything about it is just not there. It’s too expensive for something to play around with and buying into Facebook is also not something I want
I remember being excited for the Oculus Rift. Then Facebook bought it and my interest went to zero. Even now, whenever someone talks about different VR headests, everyone puts ‘Facebook’ in the negative column if it is from them.
I’m pretty excited about the new Steam VR heasdest that is fully self-contained, though. :)
I view VR adoption the same as IoT and smart home adoption; the greed and narcissism of capitalism killed the markets before they could even be established.
Just like I will never buy a monitor or TV locked to a specific corporation, I will never buy a VR headset that is not interoperable with any computer; especially one that requires an account, data harvesting or internet connection to operate.
Indeed. Looking forward to the new Valve headset, which is just a normal Arm pc with a linux distro, including a desktop mode. Given that they push for upstreaming, i have quite the hopes to just be able to install any linux arm distro in the future.
Home Assistant is great for offline home automation and it’s open source!
Yes but you must buy stuff that is compatible with it, or use DNS tricks to make the stuff you have not phone home… It’s doable but definitely not painless. Also you must maintain your lights, on top of everything else…
Well yeah but if you get fully offline sensors you buy them and no subscription for the life of the hardware. More upfront work sure, but cost effective and best of all not dependent on a large monopoly tech company who will jack up rates every year
Steam Frame
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You can find an older wired VR headset for cheap in the used market. Or even a Q2 if you are feeling fancier. Apart from lenses and resolution they are functionally identical to newer ones.
My first game was Superhot VR and I instantly fell in love.