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Exclusive: Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the Quest 3 now has DRM and a bunch of other intrusive components, so that's definitely off the table.

Pico looks promising, will have to do more research.

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

Isn't Pico even worse? It's by Bytedance, the Chinese company behind TikTok.

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

Is it? Yeah maybe not then.

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

If this is what you were thinkng of, then yea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICO_4

I'd rather get a Quest 3, at least you can use a separate Meta account now.

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

Yep, wired VR it is then for the time being. Because of a recent leak there's speculation that Valve are releasing some new VR headset, also the fact that they updated the SteamVR UI to feel more "Steam Deck" is good evidence, I guess we'll wait and see...

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

There's that, yes, but downside for me is that Valve doesn't release hardware officially in my country and it always gets inflated by middlemen when it goes on sale here. So the value on offer goes down by quite a bit.