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It's not really a boycott if it's just one person. Boycott implies concerted action by a group. Best of luck though. I'd refuse to buy Meta's hardware for other
by branon 4y ago
It's not really a boycott if it's just one person. Boycott implies concerted action by a group. Best of luck though. I'd refuse to buy Meta's hardware for other reasons. A Facebook account required to play has been a dealbreaker for every single one of their headsets.
> I joined the W3C Immersive Captioning Working Group and presented and hosted panels for the XR Access Symposium where I proclaimed the benefits of Quest 2 over other headsets because of the hand-tracking features and it’s affordability
Acting as an unpaid advocate for Meta's platforms and then getting burned on the next release because the flagship features you liked weren't included should not be surprising. I get it sucks, but I'm not sure what else could have been expected here. Can regular platform users involved in peripheral community advocacy typically expect to see attention/cooperation from Meta?
I would figure that if you really wanted to create a stable platform for use by a specific community, you'd be running as fast as possible _away_ from Facebook but that's just me. If anything the fact that the author has already advocated for the Quest 2 is indicative of the _opposite_ of a boycott. Your community already bought into the last-gen because you told them to.
- joshstrange 4y agoI feel gross "defending" Meta here but > A Facebook account required to play has been a dealbreaker for every single one of their headsets. This is no longer the case, you can now set up a separate "Meta" account. Now, how far you want to believe/trust that is up to you but they did remove the need for an actual facebook account.
- FloatArtifact 4y agoDoes anyone believe there's any meaningful privacy difference with biometric collection between Facebook or Meta account?