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Very strange how many people are here to dunk on Zuck. He's opening up an OS. THAT'S AWESOME! We should celebrate that in principle, no matter how we feel about
by neural_thing 2y ago
Very strange how many people are here to dunk on Zuck. He's opening up an OS. THAT'S AWESOME! We should celebrate that in principle, no matter how we feel about him or VR in general.
- croes 2y agoto third-party hardware makers. And it's still based on Android. The reason will be the same as for Android by Google: Control the market.
- Oras 2y agoOculus still requires a Facebook login; don't you see the conflict?
- purge 2y agoit requires a meta sign-in, which isn't a facebook account.
- Oras 2y agopotato <=> potato (sounds on)
- aprilnya 2y agono, those are completely different… a facebook account is an account on a social network that requires you to use your real name or else you get banned. a facebook account links you to your real life identity and your real life social circles a meta account is an account that you can optionally link to their social medias, but it isn’t required meta accounts are basically just oculus accounts
- aeonik 2y agoI don't need an account to use my monitor or my TV. Why do I need one for a VR Headset?
- aprilnya 2y agoBecause these aren’t dumb headsets that just plug into your PC. These are standalone headsets that handle the whole thing — they aren’t just a display and controllers, they take the role of the PC too. So, needing an account for these is more comparable to needing an account to use Steam
- aeonik 2y agoI don't need Steam to run my games or to pipe data into my Valve Index either. It's still unclear to me why an account is needed. I mean, I get the profit and control motive, I just don't understand the technical reasons.
- aprilnya 2y agoYeah, I guess I do agree that you should be able to just run it without an account and load apps from elsewhere I doubt there is any actual technical reason, just profit/control. I mean, it’s Meta, would you really put it past them?
- aeonik 2y agoI don't know Zuckerberg, so I don't know his motivation, nor the executives of Meta. I haven't really read any of their work. Profit and control fit the data points, but I suppose I could "put it past them" if a better model explained everything.
- baby 2y agoBecause you need to buy apps to make use of your VR headset. Lets put it this way, do you need an account to use your Iphone?
- ingredded 2y ago[flagged]
- zmmmmm 2y agoyou really should be factually correct when dunking on something It hasn't been called Oculus for ages and it doesn't require a Facebook login. Meta accounts are stand alone and completely different, you can create as many as you want without giving your identity, just an email address, you don't need to link it to anything.
- alt227 2y agoDont be fooled by the marketing language. All they are doing is allowing some companies to pay them billions of dollars to put meta onto their own headsets. Similar to how Valve allowed a few companies to put SteamOS onto their own hardware to create 'Steam Machines'. I cant think of a single time in history when this tactic has worked. and made a product or brand more successful. Please correct me if I am wrong.