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Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns (gizmodo.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good. Learning Facebook bought Oculus was fucking depressing as shit.

What they've done to it since has been worse than what most (if not all) of us expected.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Oculus was created by Palmer Lucky.

Palmer Lucky's new company is making AI drones and roboos for the military.

Nothing of value was lost.

[–] ludicolo@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Add a new VR headset to that list. Since the FTC has done away with non compete clauses the man went ahead and announced he will show off his new headset this August (I think it has a military focus as well). So many VR influencers were salivating in the comments of his post.

I find it frustrating that people give this man credit for jumpstarting VR when if he hadn't Sony probably would have. They were expetimenting with VERY similar tech around the time he was.

If anything we should attribute Luckey to the contamination of the industry. If it wasn't for his choice to sell to facebook the landscape might have been a little bit greener. Most definitely more growing pains for the tech but I do think we would have seen more open hardware. Hell, maybe Valve would have found it necessary to pick up the reigns. It's been said the Deckard may not release because they don't find it necessary with steam link on quest. (Not confirmed obviously).

Fuck Anduril.

[–] expr@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Anduril has tried to hire me multiple times as well as well as a number of people I know (their software is written in Haskell, which is a somewhat niche skill set).

Every time I've told them absolutely not.