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Thank you for the kind words. Even if VR computers aren't for everyone, we promise to keep things weird.

• roughly 5y ago
  So one thing that may help the sales pitch to the hacker demographic here - I think we've all seen a bunch of promising hardware companies come and go. I know you guys are going to survive for the next century, but if you made a point of being extremely open with the hardware design, especially around the compute module, I think that would make a difference in people's value calculations. The closer you can make this to "I can buy commodity hardware and make it work with this headset", the better the value proposition becomes, because it means that I have something I can upgrade and work with over time, even after you all get so fantastically wealthy from building these that you retire to Bali and forget all this tawdry capitalism stuff.
  • mtsr 5y ago
    Indeed, but maybe the NUC-included-model is important for the margin? Although from the price difference between the models that might not even be the case.
    • roughly 5y ago
      I'm not talking about going full "BYOC" - I think they should still sell the whole kit - but I think it'd make it easier to see the long-term value proposition if I know I _can_ build my own compute module in the future - that I'm not wholly reliant on their corporate solvency to use the hardware going forward. Effectively, they've got an all-in-one computer with a really novel/interesting display, and the issue with many all-in-one computers is that the computer guts usually age faster and less gracefully than the displays. They're showing the compute part as modular, but that's not useful if the company isn't around in ~3 years unless I can build my own.
    • kanetw 5y ago
      The NUC is actually a bit subsidized compared to the tethered version.