A friend of mine just got one and this seems like the goddamn future we should all be going crazy over but no one seems to care much

  • sappho [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I was really into VR for a couple years, got an Oculus dev kit and then one of the first Vive orders. Modded Skyrim and Minecraft all the way back then to experience them in VR and it was mind blowing. Spent a long time telling people that this was the new shit, and worrying over the fact that Facebook's tech was objectively worse than Vive/they had a closed anti-competitive ecosystem but it was on its way to market dominance due to the much lower cost (selling at a loss probably for just this reason). I have no idea what's been happening in the space for the past couple years though.

    • wantonviolins [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Basically

      Palmer Luckey was forced out of Oculus after the Facebook acquisition for being too obviously chuddy, joined forces with actual vampire Peter Thiel, and is trying to Build the Wall, but it’s a dystopian virtual wall made of surveillance drones and biometric identification

      Valve released their own headset and it rules but it’s also $1000

      Facebook has done the extremely obvious move of Facebook-izing Oculus, and the new standalone headset is both shittier than the old one (comfort and tracking-wise) and requires a Facebook account to set up and use

      Imagine getting shot by a perimeter drone on the southern US border put there by a guy who has cosplayed Rainbow Dash.

      • sappho [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Wow, thanks for the summary. This is... possibly the most dystopian way this could have played out so far. Additional support for the theory that this is the worst possible timeline, I suppose