Technology

Listen pal - Do you know how hard it is to make legs for a wii-like avatar?! We need another 8 billion.

Cutting spending by 20% while not reducing output will definitely accomplish that, too!

The tech in general just isn't good enough to do that much more. It's like having a coal powered steam engine and then saying you'll build a formula 1 car with it. They thought that with throwing enough money at the wall, a few breakthroughs in tech would fall out, but it doesn't work like that. If you're very lucky you hit one breakthrough, but they needed a few.

Maybe you shouldn't have made it ~~so shit~~

That is a way more legit reason to still be mad, in my book, and it predates the Facebook acquisition. Oculus had made all that noise about how their devices would be platform agnostic and they wouldn't try to railroad you into buying games through their platform and the moment there was money buzz around the idea Luckey dropped that stuff like it was red hot and we ended up with the travesty that is the PC Oculus store.

I don't think VR was ever going to be mainstream, but imagine what the software ecosystem would be if techbro Smeagol hadn't gotten greedy for that precious, precious investment money.

Facebook flooded the market with cash, but failed to secure any Killer App to get people on their product. I wouldn't say they ruined Oculus so much as it continues to be an unsolved technology that wasn't ready for this level of exposure. I still can't use the damned thing for more than an hour without feeling nauseous, and Meta was trying to gear up Oculus headsets for mass adoption by office workers.

The games market isn't what they're fixated on. They want this to be standard hardware for excel-book jockeys.

Let's hope Meta sinks every last dime of their profit into "the next big thing" that is their VR division

That wouldn't be better for the company. They probably don't make money on selling the hardware.

Same sentiment except additionally I will never buy anything from Facebook because they are radicalizing people.

Not going to buy an Apple Vision either if it won't behave as a generic screen for any OS.

I am utterly sick of the account requirement and proprietary connector bullshit from every company.

Holy shit, give me just one billion per year and I'll build you a sexier failure.

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.

keep in mind meta didnt make occulus, they bought it out. Oculus is just on the list of silicon valley startups that suceeded in getting bought out and profited from. (of the 10x more that fail)

They didn't make shit. They did what Google loves to do and they bought a highly successful, incredibly progressive company. And now it's shit, just like alllll the others that got bought out by big names.

I don't think anybody is under the impression that their engineers are stupid or that they can't make decent hardware when they want to.

They just rightly think that Facebook is an absolutely evil company.

Too bad that it will turn into a brick once meta decides to axe their VR department.

The Xreal Air~, or the just-being-released Xreal Air 2 Ultra, is potentially that.

Oled displays and cameras for tracking objects and hands.

Edit: also just saw this