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Meta will delete all non-migrated Oculus accounts in March - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 156 points 8 months ago (23 children)

Oculus could have been great, it's a shame that Meta metastasized and destroyed them.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

The sacrifice might still end up being worth something as Facebook subsidised so much of the cost of the hardware in the push that they ended up selling over 20 million headsets introducing VR to a huge new audience. If that actually translates to long term VR users or fizzles down as a one-off curiosity we shall see in the coming years when those people are up for an upgrade.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

One could argue that someone other than Facebook/Meta could have done better but I guess we'll never know for sure.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I still shudder to imagine what the CV2 could have been. CV1 remains one of the best designed VR systems to this day.

The oled display, 90fps, fantastic audio, light HMD, ergonomic controllers... Its only real weakness was the constellation tracking, and with my three tracker setup even that became nearly a non-issue.

Replace the tracking with lighthouse, maybe upgrade the oled with one from today, put in the newer optics that reduce godrays to nearly nil... It would be unbeatable.

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I still found those controllers to be the most comfortable and best VR controllers I've ever used. The Index controllers are great for its features but they're a bit too heavy for my liking.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

The thought of taking a powerdrill to mine, ghetto gaming mouse weight reduction style, has crossed my mind many times.

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