The AI generated mock-up doesn’t help, imo. Anyone who misses the source of the image might think it’s a bit dated. Thing looks huge and heavy; like a 90’s camcorder that straps to your face lol
I like how they cite it as being from themselves via DALL-E as if they did anything.
Agreed, I initially did get confused when reading the article.
A Vision Pro rival? So an overly expensive developer kit of a product with no real world use for an average user that fails and becomes a meme faster than the Apple Vision Pro did? I believe it! GO SAMSUNG you can do it!!!
I think they will apply learnings from Apple, they’ve been in the VR game for a lot longer after all.
True. Remember Gear VR was a joke… But it was still experience
Honestly all these VR systems don’t matter much. I already bought my games on steam and none of them natively support steam. I’m basically in a holding pattern until one does without having to do a virtual desktop or something. Plus, no Facebook account, so those are out …
Go with Linux on top of that and you’re kinda forced down to the Index, or to wait for the Deckard, which surely won’t be cheap either.
If the headset runs android and has OpenXR properly implemented, you could use it on linux with wivrn. But the index is kinda in a league of its own in terms of PCVR convenience due to being wired and not having it’s own OS.
Meta devices no longer need a facebook account FYI. That requirement was scrapped over 2 years ago.
No, it wasn’t. I just bought one and still needed a Meta account. Where are you getting this bullshit, stop it
Read my post again carefully. They used to require a facebook account, which they no longer do. A Meta account is just an email address and a password, not automatically connected to a social media profile.
Yes, it is technically not called a facebook account, but it is effectively the same thing in terms of privacy. Plus, you need to give a working phone number just to unlock basic headset functionality (installing apks).
Yes, it is technically not called a facebook account, but it is effectively the same thing in terms of privacy.
I disagree. The worst thing about the facebook account requirement was that it meant your VR profile was directly tied to a public social media account with your full name and possibly even more personal info. That’s much worse when it comes to privacy. It forced people to join an otherwise unrelated social network just to get their VR headset working. You could lose access to your VR library by getting banned on facebook. Without all that, it’s the exact same thing as the regular Oculus accounts that existed before the facebook requirement.
In any case, you can think whatever you want about meta accounts. I simply pointed out the fact that facebook accounts are no longer required. I didn’t say that meta accounts have good privacy or that you should get a Quest. I personally use a Valve Index. Downvoting an easily provable fact or calling it bullshit seems silly to me but eh. I guess reddit’s debate culture is slowly taking hold here as well.
Great, more prohibitively expensive, feature-stripped, mobile phone based VR slop with proprietary app stores.
Samsung TVs are already showing ads over people’s content, they don’t need that behavior to fill more of their field of vision.
Fuck you specifically Samsung.
A shame that this comes out after Samsung stopped making functional hardware
