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Data from a VR is extremely useful. First it measures your fitness level. Those devices have high quality acceleration and gyroscope sensors. They could know y

Data from a VR is extremely useful. First it measures your fitness level. Those devices have high quality acceleration and gyroscope sensors. They could know your visual and acoustic acuity. They measure what games you play, for how long, at what time. With these data and processing done by AI created by engineers they can extract and know more about yourself than you do. We know from Snowden that places like the NSA collect and save data expecting technological changes in 5-10 years in the future for processing that data. The technology for processing does not need to be ready yet. This is extremely useful for Advertisers and secret services. This is not what you say you are, this is what you are.

underwater 6y ago
That's a bit of a stretch. Facebook uses data to improve ad targetting on their own platforms. They're not selling your HR or fitness data to your insurance company or anything crazy like that. Facebook generated $29 per user in the US last year. A small bit of extra info about people's gaming habits is not going to improve ad targetting enough to make up for a $100 gap in price.
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  They're not selling that data yet. But it's clear from the reviews the $100 was mainly achieved by cost-cutting. They may still lose some money on it but that's just an investment in becoming market leader in VR.
KaiserPro 6y ago
Currently VR data is not very good for anything really yet, because we have no scalable way to understand it. "raw" VR data is about 10 megabytes a second of black and white infrared video. plus audio and position data of either controllers or hands. After its been processed it can give you a sparse pointcloud of your living room (which is not overly bad) but thats not something thats done by facebook, yet. With a bit more work you could get a dense pointcloud. Unlike AR which will need a bunch more processing on device to get position and geo data, VR is mostly just slam

underwater 6y ago

That's a bit of a stretch. Facebook uses data to improve ad targetting on their own platforms. They're not selling your HR or fitness data to your insurance company or anything crazy like that. Facebook generated $29 per user in the US last year. A small bit of extra info about people's gaming habits is not going to improve ad targetting enough to make up for a $100 gap in price.

GekkePrutser 6y ago
They're not selling that data yet. But it's clear from the reviews the $100 was mainly achieved by cost-cutting. They may still lose some money on it but that's just an investment in becoming market leader in VR.

KaiserPro 6y ago

Currently VR data is not very good for anything really yet, because we have no scalable way to understand it. "raw" VR data is about 10 megabytes a second of black and white infrared video. plus audio and position data of either controllers or hands. After its been processed it can give you a sparse pointcloud of your living room (which is not overly bad) but thats not something thats done by facebook, yet. With a bit more work you could get a dense pointcloud. Unlike AR which will need a bunch more processing on device to get position and geo data, VR is mostly just slam