Man I love my Oculus Quest 2 but fuck me, why do I need a fucking facebook account to use it? It's infuriating. They say it's "so I can play with my friends and family" fuck you facebook I have no friends and my family are all boomers.
Index costs 2.5x as much (although it's far superior) as the quest2 and mounting the sensors is easy even in a small room. However, if you don't have a PC than I guess I don't blame you much, but people keep buying into the Amazon/Facebook bullshit out of mere convenience and then complain about it. Drives me a little nuts tbh.
I do have the PC for it. Valve Index kit sells for $1319.00 Cdn. Quest 2 is 399 so the index is considerable more investment and like I said I don’t want to dink with base stations tbh.
I can play Alyx just fine and it’s my first foray into VR so for me buying an index felt like buying a Ferrari before I had my drivers licence.
They’ve already hacked the quest 2 so hopefully someone will come up with a way to disable the Facebook account. I also already block Facebook trackers on my router via openWRT so it works for now.
I think you forgot to convert the Quest 2 to CAD, as it shows as $629.99 CAD according to the Oculus website. I based my prices off of USD, which is Index $999 USD (which comes with Alyx, so a better deal than I bought it for a couple years ago, damn) and Quest 2 at $399 USD.
Like I said, I understand. It was my first foray too but I preferred to get something that I knew the tech would still be current a few years down the road (which it is, it's still way ahead of the games right now) plus the added bonus of supporting a company that does things I like (usually, I didn't like that they built an alternative steam client for China, but I get it), but to each his own.
That's good that you're finding ways to block facebook out of your life. I hate everything that company does and stands for.
I went cheapest for the 64gb version. I did spring for the cable and the better head strap for all told I guess 500 after taxes but I’m happy with it so far.
Honestly this sounds like he’s going to try to enter the phone space eventually, and I think it’s good to have more competition.
I mean it’s unfortunate that it’s all the people ideologically speaking, but as these companies get older they’ll hopefully replace the long-standing executives with money managers who don’t care as much about politics
What I’d like to see is completion for a new net, which I could see this turning into a couple decades down the line. The net should NOT be a utility, and people will only realize that once we have competition for it
Isn’t Facebook boomer central at this point though? Just under a decade ago it was already becoming uncool and people were leaving en masse for other platforms
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