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Ah, so no playing oculus either?

14 5y ago
Curious about this as well could not find anything on initial searches but I honestly hope so. The one reason I have not grabbed the oculus is because the Facebook requirement.
- crmd 5y ago
  When I hear Facebook leadership talking about the VR vision, I’m reminded of IBM in the early 2000s encouraging employees to claim their second life avatars and setup cyber customer briefing centers.
  - paul7986 5y ago
    Exactly ... like I am going to strap on a headset and work with my co-workers memojis for 8 hours or even less. Laughable and VR has been around since the 90s with the same form factor .. it hasn't evolved as it will always be strap this bulky thing to your head & isolate yourself from the world. Maybe it will catch on for videogames but to co-work in a virtually reality world HA. AR Glasses at least their form factor has changed since Google Glass and will continue to evolve some. Google Glasses to how Facebook Stories sunglasses look which look like sunglasses billions are use to wearing and use daily. Billions will never strap on a headset for hours to co-work. Billions will adopt AR Glasses as it takes a familiar form factor/daily life product and enhances it like the iPHone enhance our daily lives.
    - Tostino 5y ago
      Eh, I could see myself doing development in that type of environment if the tools were get better. I've worked remote for the past 6 years, so it wouldn't quite be the same as in an office environment though.
drzaiusapelord 5y ago
Oculus customers were only able to play offline games during this time. Which I find concerning. I don't mind that FB employee badges didn't work because what would they do at their desks anyway and all exit doors have bypasses anyway so they can, and were, open, just rank and file employees couldn't access some spaces. Some of those spaces are secure and "fail closed" by design. Yes, its inconvenient but unlocking all the doors to potential terrorists or workplace shooters if the internet connection gets snipped isn't what you want in an office. What's scary is that my gaming machine can't be used because of some weird obsession with centralizing oculus through facebook. As a customer that's inexcusable but now imagine a developer who hosts her own servers for her game and her customers can't get to it. Facebook is only providing middle-man authentication, its not even hosting these games. If they were hosted by FB it would be fine, but they aren't and what we're suffering under is FB being the gatekeeper to the rest of the internet. That is a scary prospect. I also question why we all think its acceptable to have these incredible BGP outages every 3-6 months. We built our digital world on the equivalent of ever changing spinning plates and manage it in the most cost-efficient way possible. Maybe the alternative would been worse, but its crazy to me as to what we consider normal and acceptable in capitalist culture. I'm already seeing /r/oculus say its no different than Valve's scheduled maintenance windows, which is obviously false. Its incredible what rationalizations we'll accept instead of questioning the status quo of capitalist culture and our giant corporations that rule so much of our lives.
- cube00 5y ago
  There's been a few people so far whose Facebook accounts were banned that learnt this the hard way.
- robbedpeter 5y ago
  What's it like paying to rent a gaming headset from Facebook?
- Bluecobra 5y ago
  > I also question why we all think its acceptable to have these incredible BGP outages every 3-6 months. This isn’t BGP’s fault, someone or something presumably made a network configuration change that took down their route advertisements to the world. There’s currently ~72K autonomous systems advertising ~900K IPv4 prefixes today on the Internet. There’s bound to be some sort of screw up once in a while.
jeremyis 5y ago
My friends said they couldn't play Oculus
- DonHopkins 5y ago
  I read on Facebook that Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend was using an Oculus during the Facebook outage, and he got trapped in CyberSpace, and when his balls became swollen in CyberSpace, they also became swollen in real life!
  - hef19898 5y ago
    That's what you get when you try to get 100% in a Starfleet drill assessment simulation. A rigged one at that!

14 5y ago

Curious about this as well could not find anything on initial searches but I honestly hope so. The one reason I have not grabbed the oculus is because the Facebook requirement.

crmd 5y ago
When I hear Facebook leadership talking about the VR vision, I’m reminded of IBM in the early 2000s encouraging employees to claim their second life avatars and setup cyber customer briefing centers.
- paul7986 5y ago
  Exactly ... like I am going to strap on a headset and work with my co-workers memojis for 8 hours or even less. Laughable and VR has been around since the 90s with the same form factor .. it hasn't evolved as it will always be strap this bulky thing to your head & isolate yourself from the world. Maybe it will catch on for videogames but to co-work in a virtually reality world HA. AR Glasses at least their form factor has changed since Google Glass and will continue to evolve some. Google Glasses to how Facebook Stories sunglasses look which look like sunglasses billions are use to wearing and use daily. Billions will never strap on a headset for hours to co-work. Billions will adopt AR Glasses as it takes a familiar form factor/daily life product and enhances it like the iPHone enhance our daily lives.
  - Tostino 5y ago
    Eh, I could see myself doing development in that type of environment if the tools were get better. I've worked remote for the past 6 years, so it wouldn't quite be the same as in an office environment though.

drzaiusapelord 5y ago

Oculus customers were only able to play offline games during this time. Which I find concerning. I don't mind that FB employee badges didn't work because what would they do at their desks anyway and all exit doors have bypasses anyway so they can, and were, open, just rank and file employees couldn't access some spaces. Some of those spaces are secure and "fail closed" by design. Yes, its inconvenient but unlocking all the doors to potential terrorists or workplace shooters if the internet connection gets snipped isn't what you want in an office. What's scary is that my gaming machine can't be used because of some weird obsession with centralizing oculus through facebook. As a customer that's inexcusable but now imagine a developer who hosts her own servers for her game and her customers can't get to it. Facebook is only providing middle-man authentication, its not even hosting these games. If they were hosted by FB it would be fine, but they aren't and what we're suffering under is FB being the gatekeeper to the rest of the internet. That is a scary prospect. I also question why we all think its acceptable to have these incredible BGP outages every 3-6 months. We built our digital world on the equivalent of ever changing spinning plates and manage it in the most cost-efficient way possible. Maybe the alternative would been worse, but its crazy to me as to what we consider normal and acceptable in capitalist culture. I'm already seeing /r/oculus say its no different than Valve's scheduled maintenance windows, which is obviously false. Its incredible what rationalizations we'll accept instead of questioning the status quo of capitalist culture and our giant corporations that rule so much of our lives.

cube00 5y ago
There's been a few people so far whose Facebook accounts were banned that learnt this the hard way.
robbedpeter 5y ago
What's it like paying to rent a gaming headset from Facebook?
Bluecobra 5y ago
> I also question why we all think its acceptable to have these incredible BGP outages every 3-6 months. This isn’t BGP’s fault, someone or something presumably made a network configuration change that took down their route advertisements to the world. There’s currently ~72K autonomous systems advertising ~900K IPv4 prefixes today on the Internet. There’s bound to be some sort of screw up once in a while.

jeremyis 5y ago

My friends said they couldn't play Oculus

DonHopkins 5y ago
I read on Facebook that Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend was using an Oculus during the Facebook outage, and he got trapped in CyberSpace, and when his balls became swollen in CyberSpace, they also became swollen in real life!
- hef19898 5y ago
  That's what you get when you try to get 100% in a Starfleet drill assessment simulation. A rigged one at that!