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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away (news.yahoo.com)

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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away::Last fall, Meta-formerly-Facebook unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, a long-rumored, higher-end follow-up to the company's best-selling Quest 2 VR headset. The sleek device, which initially went on sale for an eye-watering $1,500, has really struggled to catch on since then, just as we predicted at the time. And, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is […]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’d use VR for work if I could afford it. But not from the take all you personal dada and sell it company.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would use it for work, except our tech stack is still stuck in the 1990s...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could likely capture card your monitors and pipe them into a secondary PC, to then pipe into your headset. Assuming your limitation is a work PC unable to run VR for one reason or another.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Great, now I can get even 3x the headache while fixing legacy code, using jquery UI and wearing a VR headset at work! /s