Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected | TechCrunch
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Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    38·
    6 months ago

    The main thing it changed for me is completely writing off Oculus as a VR contender, thanks to Facebook/Meta being behind it.

    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      Yeah I had really wanted one and would’ve eventually, now I have zero interest.

      I’d even go so far as to say seeing Meta get involved in it killed off a lot of my interest for VR in general.

  • watson387@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    As soon as I found out you need a Facebook account to use it, all possibilities of me ever buying one ended.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    At the end of the day, all they did was subsume a neat company with a neat product and bastardize it into something that resembled a cog in Zuck’s money machine.

  • kinkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    55·
    6 months ago

    I waited a long time to get into VR because I was anticipating spending $1k+ on some tethered headset and I wanted to avoid Facebook. Finally my curiosity got the better of me and I bought a Quest 3.

    Holy moly I’m so glad I did. It’s an incredible device that costs half as much and yet does more than the headset I was planning to buy. I know Lemmy leans very anti-Facebook, and so did I to an extent, but I don’t regret my purchase one bit.

    • Sandbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      Don’t know why you are getting down voted, you bought what you thought was best for you. That’s all that matters what you think is best for you.