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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away (news.yahoo.com)

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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 […]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it's "literally" been reduced to $1000.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And now, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is literally resorting to giving them away for free: Attendees of this year's developer conference for the global gaming platform Roblox each got a free Meta Quest Pro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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