Thanks for the link. Somehow, I missed that acquisition.

I stopped playing as soon as the lobby was always full of kids, as a heck of a lot of people did.

Echo Arena is still playable on private servers.

I know you are not in this group, but I am still amazed by the number of people that just now finding out that it is gone yet claim they loved it. How much did they love it if they did not even notice it was gone for more than a year.

Seven headsets in 9 years and multiple tens of millions in third party content funding are not actions? You have a short memory when it fits your narative.

Meta has already put out multiple public statements saying that they are not "saying bye to VR." They are investing less in first-party content. They are focusing on the hardware and the OS.

Did Valve say bye to VR when they stopped making first-party content? You know the one game in a decade.

Sounds to me like someone that is new to VR and knows nothing about what already exists. Valve knows their target audience, and that audience will be happy with the headset. In my opinion, it is a letdown most people that already know what is out there. It just adds so little to what already existed

The same can be said for the Horizon OS store, on the headset, on the web, or in the MetaLink software. It is a bad experience everywhere. QuestStoreDB runs circles around it. It is just sad.

A lot about the MetaLink software just makes me shake my head. It is like none of the developers use the software at all. So many of the pain points are obvious and likely easy to fix. It just feels like they don't care.

Right... it is not like government officials are required by law to refuse illegal orders... oh wait, they are.

What?! I don't know what is happening on that side of the screen, but from the keyboard side, that makes no sense to me.

If they checked your socials or any of your podcasts, I am surprised they let you in the door.

I did not realize that Reality Labs has 15,000 employees.

At $3500 it better be. It was all that was available the Quest did not exist, something like 28 million VR users would not own a headset.

That sucks! Hope you continue to improve and recover quickly.

Shocking... Xbox Game Pass gave me a similar deal when I was going to cancel.

How is it any different than any other shared computing device?

So somehow, those of us who have spent hundreds of hours in VR on a Quest are not "real ones." Gee, thanks Ian.

Yeah, it illustrates how willing you are to amplify anything negative about Meta's glasses no matter how fake you think it is.

She broke someone's camera glasses for filming in public while being filmed by multiple people in public. It is just stupid.

Nice of someone to provide the evidence that will be used in court when she is charged with assault and damaging property.

It is also funny as hell that the only reason anyone knows that she broke someone's smart glasses for filming in public is because other people filmed her in public.

🤣- Viewing the one I made crashes the tab in Edge!

Wires are for the tech-adjacent. At this point it'd kind of like fixing you glasses with tape.

Just get a WiFi 6E router for $80 and get rid of the cables.

Their online store, however, is out of them.

The obvious question is: "are the new panels bright enough for pancake lenses?" I am never going back to Fresnel, and most people are unlikely to pay for aspherical lenses.

It will be great for media consumption on your new Steam Frame, but unlike media consumption on the Quest, AVP, or GXR, you will have to use your controllers because Valve headsets don't need no filthy hand-tracking.

And that's exactly what they're counting on. The question is are there enough people like you to make it a successful headset?

Valve doesn't need to make money, but it needs to get enough users for developers to care.

Do you think there is any chance they will try making a Horizon OS headset?

When was that a problem? The sides of my case are clean and soft.

I can already do that on my Quest, and I get a large MobileVR library, hand-tracking, and full MR/XR support; all for a bit over half the price. I just don't see that draw except for people that only want to run Steam games.

I was referring to the hardware they have chosen. It appears to have 16GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM. Personally, I feel that 32/12 is the minimum for many of the new games, but maybe that is just me.

You can get 512GB or 2T of storage, but no upgraded RAM/VRAM options.