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Oculus was an excellent product and the Quest was surprisingly successful but weirdly Facebook is being way too aggressive with trying to make the platform prof
by whywhywhywhy 5y ago
Oculus was an excellent product and the Quest was surprisingly successful but weirdly Facebook is being way too aggressive with trying to make the platform profitable like a traditional FB product before it's fully entrenched.
Think this might eventually be their downfall, if Sony could ship a stand alone headset at Quest quality they'd probably be able to eat FB's lunch at this point because the push to force you to use an FB account and now pushing ads into it are making it far less appealing.
Really they should have just let it fly for a few more years like how they allowed Instagram to be Instagram for a few years before they ruined it with ads and algorithms gradually.
- hbosch 5y agoI think if VR had the same adoption curve that Facebook initially enjoyed, we would be able to wait longer for the inevitable ad push. Anecdotally speaking, I haven't seen VR "take off" like people online hope it will year after year. Seems likely that the VR market has quite some pressure on it to turn profits soon before it bleeds out.