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https://www.cnet.com/news/best-vr-headsets-for-2021/ https://www.cnet.com/news/best-vr-headsets-for-2021/ Oculus Quest is the least expensive, competitive, sta
by neogodless 5y ago
https://www.cnet.com/news/best-vr-headsets-for-2021/ https://www.cnet.com/news/best-vr-headsets-for-2021/
Oculus Quest is the least expensive, competitive, standalone headset. Least expensive option often pairs with ad-supported.
We bought a Quest before Facebook bought Oculus, and we're very disappointed with that turn of events. I think most people would be better off opting out of VR until there's a non-Facebook standalone headset under $400 (like the original Quest once was.)
EDIT: Correction - we did not buy the Quest before it existed. We bought it a bit before the announcement that you'd eventually need to use a Facebook account with it.
- LeonenTheDK 5y agoI don't think the Quest existed before the Facebook purchase. The Quest was announced in 2018 but Facebook made the purchase in 2014. Unless you mean before the Facebook login was forced upon Oculus users.
- neogodless 5y agoWell damn. That flew under my radar. Or I put up some mental blocks because our family really wanted one while some from the older generation could still experience it. Now that I think back, I think we knew that, but it was still an "Oculus" account at the time, before the "Facebook account" requirement was announced. That seems to have been announced August of 2020... just weeks after we bought our Quest.
- LeonenTheDK 5y agoHonestly I didn't think the purchase was until like, 2017. I'm just as surprised. It kills me that Facebook owns the entry level and stand alone market as well (said as an Index owner). (in response to the edit) I can see that, my first VR headset was the CV1 Rift and my logic at the time was similar. Sure Facebook owned it but everything seemed to be still fairly separated. None of what happened after was particularly surprising.