Yeah, as fun as it is to make fun of FB for stuff, it's not like they'd be getting beat by some underdog here. Apple has like 6x the market cap and 5x the net income of FB.

wow it’s crazy to hear that facebook owned oculus back when they were doing the development kit thing, i honestly thought they bought out oculus within the last 7 years.

Everyone keeps saying VR, but the headline says mixed reality. And I think that’s a big distinction. Most people want to augment their world, not replace it.

I don’t see this being a priority anymore since ChatGPT is forcing companies to hyper focus on AI and all AR/VR teams are being let go.

Now that I think about it, something like SAO could theoretically be possible today. Just make a VR headset, make it really popular, make some kind of irresistible VR El live event that many people will show up to. Unveil in the event that the vr headset has a bomb hidden inside ot, and if you die in the game, the bomb goes off. If you remove the headset, the bomb goess off. If the headset loses power, the bomb goes off.

I know very few people who don’t have an Apple Watch

I guess cloud gaming does have a bit of clout in this regards 🤔

If Apple comes out with one, it'll probably be like their smartwatches. Some people have it, but overall it's just a thing that exists. Unlike whatever Meta is doing.
Meta comes across as frantic and desperate. "No guys wait we are totally the only ones that are going to make this work!"

Is this big tech's vision of the future? Why do they want this virtual world shit to happen so bad?

Hard pass

This, so much this, i could sit in the Starbucks and feel like I’m in the office

Do they have legs?

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Those renders look to me like it’s going to be way too perfect for Fitness+ in VR. Sporty AF.

It’s insane to me that Zuckerborg thought Facebook can just pivot into a core capacity for consumer hardware/software innovation. No, dawg. You broker adverts. Your competition is Apple and Google. Microsoft and Sony always in the mix, too, for that matter.

Historically bad business decision on the part of Facebonk.

Apple Home, though.

Apple doesn't really do cutting edge niche well, which VR is.

I mean, Apple managed to get people to start wearing smart watches. And also forced their competitors to start making some. Same deal with wireless earbuds.

It’s literally the same song and dance. Getting sick of people saying it’ll fail when their favorite brand or company copies them later.

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Why?

The question is how will it compare to the ones at that price. Most likely won't in terms of spec. They have to pull something out the bag in terms of eco system integration to make people wanna put 3k into an overpriced headset which not many people have or have experienced. I think people can justify the cost of 2k macbooks as they know what to expect from a laptop but a VR headset is new territory for most of us, so it's gonna be a hard sell at that price unless it's perfect.

3k for the headset?! I'm sort of blown away and not really surprised anymore. If it was 1500 I'd be more likely to pay for it. We'll just have to see what it offers

Facebook bought Oculus in 2014. They’ve been at it for at least 9 years now.

You too huh

It depends on the person. I get motion sick watching overwatch gameplay without VR lol

IIRC there were rumours already in the Google Glass prototype days, and that was over a decade ago.