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      What if it was all just a distraction all along, made so that people wouldn’t associate every service they’ve bought quite so strongly with their own failing platform.

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    Honestly, the biggest problem with the Quest headsets is that they’re made by Facebook. Sorry, “Meta”. The Quest 2 stand-alone headset would be an obvious recommendation to anyone curious about virtual reality if it weren’t a Mark Zuckerberg product.

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      Yep. It kills me, but I won’t do it. It otherwise is a nice little piece of tech, but the price of dealing with Facebook is a lot bigger deal to me than the price tag in cash.

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      The New Quest Pro! Available at only the low low cost of the uncensored live footage of your newborn streamed to Lord Zuck himself!

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      Most of the money spent on product development is likely going to engineers, graphic artists, industrial designers, and other professionals (who are in turn paying tax on their payroll) or to other software/IP vendors (who in turn are paying their own engineers).

      Granted, that’s probably not as good a use of capital as, say, direct benefits to people in poverty, but it’s vastly better than stock buybacks in terms of public benefit.

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    Maybe they realized that Apple’s is so much more premium that whoever would buy the Quest Pro would instead by the Apple Headset.

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        Yes, but if you’re willing to drop $1k on a non-gaming VR headset you’re probably also willing to drop $3k. Might as well spend the extra and get the premium product if you’re going to pay the premium price (or so the thinking is likely to go).

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    RIP metaverse. When VR becomes ubiquitous, I hope a sociopathic company like Facebook isn’t in charge of it.

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      The meta verse never made sense anyway. Technology is about making stuff simpler, how is going to a virtual store inside a 3D environment simpler than going to a website? What sort of benefit does it being 3D add?

      It’s just a bunch of extra overhead (both operating and using) and no one will use it. The meta verse would never evolve beyond things like VR Chat.

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        I think browsing in 3D is a lot more pleasant. I’d be extremely tempted to make myself a virtual library to browse my book library if the Apple Vision Pro resolution ends up being enough to make text crisp enough for comfortable reading. There’s a reason I still go to physical bookstores or library on occasion to browse. It’s different than scrolling a list on a page.