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I don't know, I will never use it but it's quite cool that this much money is being poured into VR development. I prefer to think of it as the money being spent rather than hoarded, and I'm definitely fine with that.
Except that Facebook is spending a lot of it on getting their screen in front of as many eyeballs as they can.
Watching the Zuck salivate at the advertising implications of the pseudo mind reading capabilities that gaze tracking might bring is creepy as fuck.
Getting their screen in front and collecting all the data they possibly can reach
I thought of getting a jailbroken Quest only to find that this is no longer possible to be done, so no Quest for me then
It's so frustrating that some of the best RnD is locked behind a subsidized purchase pushed by a company that ethically just... doesn't pass. And no amount of money can get you that tech without all the strings attached.
They'd rather leak money like a siv than lose out on data-mining your eyeballs.
It has a lot of neat experiences that many people don't know about.
For instance, the first thing I did with my VR rig when I got it last November was experience a VR documentary where I was on a British bomber flying over Berlin during WWII.
Then I took a White House tour with the Obamas.
VR's neat. FB just kind of sucks at it.