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> "It’s just that it’s Facebook providing the hardware that scares me." This is the key part. VR somehow skipped right into "walled garden" and "platfrom" terr
by zo1 4y ago
> "It’s just that it’s Facebook providing the hardware that scares me."
This is the key part. VR somehow skipped right into "walled garden" and "platfrom" territory right off the bat. It's not just hardware that is interchangeable and multi-use with pluggable things and apps. I think a lot of the people weary of Facebook's VR headset would be put at ease to a large degree if this was an 100% open ecosystem where just one of Facebook's entities is providing the hardware.
- supermatt 4y ago> VR somehow skipped right into "walled garden" and "platfrom" territory right off the bat Thats not what happened. One of the biggest walled gardens spent a tiny portion of their massive wealth to move into another market by purchasing the market leader. Its this behaviour that needs to stop. Corps should be restricted to a single trade category.
- ahtihn 4y ago> Corps should be restricted to a single trade category. Can you come up with a definition of trade category that is legally useful and would prevent Meta from getting into VR hardware?
- supermatt 4y agoI dont need to come up with one - they already exist in the form of trademark (WIPO NCL) classification. I suppose the hardware would be class 28, the app store would be class 35, there are other classes that would be applicable too given they also provide services, etc. Preferably they would be even more granular than that - I believe the chinese system is a bit more detailed in that area.
- AgentME 4y ago>"walled garden" The Quest officially allows sideloading apps and alternative app stores like SideQuest, which Google recently invested in.
- boppo1 4y agoYeah, lemme get the firmware under MIT or GNU and we'll talk. That's open, not side-loading.