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For better or worse Facebook are the ones keeping VR on life support, without them it would have flatlined years ago. They have the only good affordable headset
by jsheard 2y ago
For better or worse Facebook are the ones keeping VR on life support, without them it would have flatlined years ago. They have the only good affordable headsets, they throw tons of money around to bankroll VR game studios in exchange for exclusivity, and even for games they don't bankroll it's a no-brainer to prioritize their platform because >90% of sales happen there.
https://x.com/MuchRockness/status/1849543449906942094 https://x.com/MuchRockness/status/1849543449906942094
Even the minority who do buy VR games on Steam are mostly playing them on a cheap Meta headset, so without Meta those sales might not have happened either. The most recent Steam hardware survey shows that of the users who have a VR headset, nearly two thirds of them are using an Oculus/Meta model.
- willis936 2y agoI'm happy for them. I'd rather never touch VR again than plug my eyes into facebook.
- jsheard 2y ago> I'm happy for them. It's a pyrrhic victory, they may have cornered the market but it's still losing them $4-5 billion every quarter with no end in sight. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/30/metas-reality-labs-posts-4point4-billion-loss-in-third-quarter.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/30/metas-reality-labs-posts-4po...
- maroonblazer 2y agoI have the Quest 3 and Arkham Shadow gives me all the same feels as Half Life Alyx. Before AS dropped I hadn't turned on my Q3 for over 6 months.