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£1500 and it still costs another £90 to connect it to your PC? Unless I'm missing something, charging that much for a proprietary cable just sounds like an att
by danpalmer 4y ago
£1500 and it still costs another £90 to connect it to your PC?
Unless I'm missing something, charging that much for a proprietary cable just sounds like an attempt to lock in to their ecosystem and app store, and prevent this being used as a dumb VR interface to another system.
I can understand it on the budget consumer device, but here it's a little cheap.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoIf it's like previous Oculi, you can just use a $20 USB-C cable from Amazon. But those tend to be shorter length
- MikusR 4y agoYou can connect using wifi or using any usb cable. The one they sell is an active optical cable. Look up how much they cost elsewhere.
- AlexandrB 4y agoI think the cable is just a fibre-optic USB-C (thunderbolt?) cable. This is probably necessary to get the 5m range. I know for Thunderbolt 3 cables > 2m you had to go fibre optic and they were surprisingly expensive ($100+). It would surprise me if you couldn't plug in another USB-C cable with the correct protocol support here.
- Eisenstein 4y agoIt is not a proprietary cable. It is a 5 meter long USB-C cable capable of 3A (it doesn't say the wattage, but Quest 2 uses QC 3.0 which is 18W) which does 5gbps data as well. It is an active fiber optic cable which is necessary because the USB 3.1 gen 1 (5gbps) spec doesn't allow for passive cables over 2 meters. * https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%20R2.0%20-%20August%202019.pdf https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%...