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That sounds like a bold faced lie to me. To quote the article: >Meta sells reasonably good gaming headsets to customers who want to be entertained in VR; we're

That sounds like a bold faced lie to me. To quote the article: >Meta sells reasonably good gaming headsets to customers who want to be entertained in VR; we're selling general-purpose productivity devices which are aimed at replacing PCs and laptops. So our real competition is laptops & PCs, not other gaming headsets. Everything Meta has been releasing publicly about their VR Headset plans make it blatantly clear that it is not only targeting gaming.

ece 4y ago
How about a look at Meta's app sales to prove that? I think this list of who the subpoena was served to is pretty hilarious, and it's even more hilarious that Apple's not on this list: Alphabet Inc. ByteDance Inc. HTC America, Inc. Huawei Technologies USA, Inc. Nintendo of America Inc. Panasonic Corporation of North America Samsung Electronics America, Inc. Simula VR, LLC I think the malicious intent is all on Meta's side. They have a head start with Occulus, no one else is even close in the US.
- onepointsixC 4y ago
  In what way is the subpoena hilarious? All of those companies to my knowledge are players in the VR space with hardware. Google has Daydream, and working on more Bytedance has the Pico's HTC has the Vive Huawei has one as well, don't remember it right now Nintendo has something similar to daydream but for the Switch Panasonic has the MeganeX Samsung has the Gear Simula have their headset They all sell some form of headset hardware.
  - ece 4y ago
    It's hilarious because of Simula's size compared to the rest, and because it doesn't include Apple/Valve, and really, only those two should even be on the list at all! They literally subpoenaed everyone except their real potential competition. I get it, they subpoenaed whoever they could. I think the FTC in the Bloomberg story linked in the post said it best: "It reflects their scorched-earth defense strategy here to fight in whatever manner is available to them" There isn't anyone with a current model headset like the Quest, that is even remotely close in market share in the US.

ece 4y ago

How about a look at Meta's app sales to prove that? I think this list of who the subpoena was served to is pretty hilarious, and it's even more hilarious that Apple's not on this list: Alphabet Inc. ByteDance Inc. HTC America, Inc. Huawei Technologies USA, Inc. Nintendo of America Inc. Panasonic Corporation of North America Samsung Electronics America, Inc. Simula VR, LLC I think the malicious intent is all on Meta's side. They have a head start with Occulus, no one else is even close in the US.

onepointsixC 4y ago
In what way is the subpoena hilarious? All of those companies to my knowledge are players in the VR space with hardware. Google has Daydream, and working on more Bytedance has the Pico's HTC has the Vive Huawei has one as well, don't remember it right now Nintendo has something similar to daydream but for the Switch Panasonic has the MeganeX Samsung has the Gear Simula have their headset They all sell some form of headset hardware.
- ece 4y ago
  It's hilarious because of Simula's size compared to the rest, and because it doesn't include Apple/Valve, and really, only those two should even be on the list at all! They literally subpoenaed everyone except their real potential competition. I get it, they subpoenaed whoever they could. I think the FTC in the Bloomberg story linked in the post said it best: "It reflects their scorched-earth defense strategy here to fight in whatever manner is available to them" There isn't anyone with a current model headset like the Quest, that is even remotely close in market share in the US.