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Meta Quest 3 Is Now Used More On Steam Than The HTC Vive (www.uploadvr.com)
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[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was in the same boat as you. I ended up getting the Quest 3, because frankly, it's one of the best headsets on the market right now. While Meta still tries it's best to vacuum my data, I've disabled as many data sharing options as I can find.

I do most of my VR gaming on PCVR through Steam Link, which is outstanding. If you have a PC and a good WiFi 6 router, you can avoid the Meta marketplace for the most part by buying PCVR games on Steam directly. That way Meta doesn't get as much data out of you.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'd want to play primarily SteamVR. But I'm worried that Meta could flip a switch and I'd have an otherwise useless $650 eyemask.

If I can decouple the headset from needing updates and can have work solely over LAN I'd be sold. Maybe I'll block it on my router if I had one.

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And they will. I've had a Quest 1 for ages and recently went to hook it up again and it had forced Facebook accounts. Used to be the gen 1 could still be used with just an Oculus account or "offline". That's no longer the case. We decided to make a FB account to use with it (never had one in the past) only to find that it couldn't "authenticate" properly with PiHole running... so I now have a piece of e-waste that used to be a functional headset sitting on the pile.

It was a beyond frustrating experience and made the option of ever purchasing a gen 2 or 3 a null factor. I'll stick to the Rift and Index and deal with wires across my living room.

[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that's a fair concern. I wish somebody would create a custom ROM you could replace the Meta shit with or something