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What do you think about that most big VR technology is owned by big companies like Meta and Tik Tok? (feddit.de)

submitted 8 months ago by lesnout27@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I mean yeah it's obvious that it's an oportunity for making money on a new marked and so on, but, even if it's a bit silly, dreaming of VR technology like in Ready Player One(minus the distopian world) for real life it feels like the bad guys already won, when we will have the technology. Like the omni One is just about to be launched for the market and it's sold in a bundle with the pico 4, which is owned by Tik Tok. Do you get what is grinding my gears about that?

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[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works -1 points 8 months ago

I mean it's basically inevitable that major hardware was going to be fairly dominated by big companies, just like how you're not going to find many small businesses producing regular ass non-vr monitors and the like, especially at the high end of things.

But overall, it's still a fairly diverse market. Beyond what you've mentioned, there's the valve index as easily the most major competitor. I've heard good things about pimax headsets, and they seem to be as close to a small business as the industry really can manage. Rumors say Sony is bringing psvr2 compatability to PC, which would be a huge advantage given the insanely cheap price tag for the quality. The apple vision exists, I guess, though it's locked in apples walled garden. The htc vive still seems to be around.