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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away

Facebook’s VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away::Last fall, Meta-formerly-Facebook unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, a long-rumored, higher-end follow-up to the company’s best-selling Quest 2 VR headset. The sleek device, which initially went on sale for an eye-watering $1,500, has really struggled to catch on since then, just as we predicted at the time. And, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is […]

dbilitated ,
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I find it so perplexing they released a “premium” version with barely improved resolution.

JeffCraig ,

The main problem with the Pro is that it completely fails at the thing it was primarily marketed for: AR passthrough.

The cameras are so bad that when you use video passthrough, everything is blurry. It’s completely unusable. No one will ever use it for productivity tasks in its current form. Meta should have just focused on making a high end gaming version because they failed at making it usable for anything business related.

specfreq ,
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You could not pay me… I’m not even mad at Facebook, fuck you so much Palmer Lucky!!!

iesou ,

Ok I agree with all that sentiment, but in the article I only saw a $500 price drop, were they ever free or are you taking the world literally figuratively?

moormaan ,

It is referring to that Roblox developer conference. But yeah, somewhat click baity as people might be hoping to get one for cheap.

paddirn ,

I wouldn’t take anything from Facebook, no matter if it was free or if I was paid to take it. They’re toxic as a service and as a company, I want nothing to do with them.

Dkarma ,

No shit. The platform is basically just a string of rug pulls over your lifetime.

pomodoro_longbreak ,
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That’s the thing. Anyone who cares about cutting edge (read: flawed, unproven) tech is unlikely to be messing about on FB. More likely they do not associate any positive feelings with anything that you might chose to attach to FB.

negativeyoda ,

Just realized that I don’t even see people clowning on Zuck’s VR fixation these days.

Chobbes ,

I think Twitter has just taken up all of the oxygen lately.

reagansrottencorpse ,

I feel so dumb for buying an index, I barely use it.

bitsplease ,

I don’t really regret it, because it was a truly awesome experience while it was fresh, and I probably sunk hundreds of hours into it over the pandemic. But yeah, it does get old surprisingly quickly, and there are literally no new games for it that aren’t arcade-style trash from the past few years.

Sadly, I think HL:A was the peak of VR gaming, and it’s all been downhill from there.

Maybe when standalones get powerful enough that they can run “real” games, it’ll kickoff again, but I don’t think I’ve put on my headset in months at this point, and there’s nothing on the horizon that’s likely to make me grab it again any time soon

float ,

Have you played Superhot VR? It’s one of my favorite VR games.

teichflamme ,

I like super hot but it’s really nothing like Alyx.

I’m in the same boat. I played a bit more of NMS in VR, but I am not seeing a lot on the horizon in terms of single player AAA games.

bitsplease ,

Literally the first game I ever played in VR, but it kind of stands as a good example of what I’m talking about. It’s literally almost a decade old and is still at the top of most people’s VR game lists. The VR gaming industry has stagnated big time.

And honestly what we need are more games like HL:A and (arguably) boneworks, real games, with a plot, characters, etc. Vertigo 2 is the only game I can think of that has come out recently that meets those criteria, and even that felt pretty cheap and unpolished

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Looking for the place so I can have my free, “literally” given away VR headset.

WindowsEnjoyer ,

Valve Index is much better device.

Also Zucc can go fuck hinself. Maybe he will find a privacy, because he stores it in his asshole.

raldone01 ,

Your username makes this comment way funnier to me. 🤣

WindowsEnjoyer ,

BTW I use Arch 🤫🤫🤫

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