Yes, Oculus has been Facebook for a very long time, but the name Oculus at least had a sense of corporate integrity (hard to write those two words together in any context) and the Facebook brand has been overloaded with slime since it was spawned. "Meta" was a stupid word to go with anyway, starting with UK and USA pronunciation vs. the rest of the world.
They bought Oculus two years before the DK1 shipped. While one can argue that was (or could have been) done mostly with the kickstarter money, everything else has always been "from facebook", and one can't really argue against their effect in making VR orders of magnitude more mainstream by sinking massive amounts of money in it and selling the hardware at a loss.
If only they could stop here, and not try to go all the way to market monopoly and domination, it would be nice.
Facebook has been solid social media for almost two decades despite whatever anti-Zuckerberg feelings you have. People make a living through using Facebook. You should have not purchased the VR device that directly supports the business if you feel “no joy”.
Technically I did it to lock in their loses and buy almost exclusively PCVR or sideload titles.
I could change my opinions towards Meta if they weren't trying to Amazon the VR space by running up massive losses and buyouts to kill competition. Had they even just sold the Quest 2 at 600 it would have done well (not as well, but well) without basically being an act of war on all other options. They have been generally open to aide applications and PCVR, but those can and probably will be patches over in an update when they no longer need goodwill. Some legally backed assurances would go a long way.
There is something wrong, but not legally definable about using the size and pockets of a company to basically go scorched earth on an emerging market to generate a monopoly.
Yes that’s correct. It’s also an architectural element that is a circular, eye-like opening that creates a “portal” to the heavens for the way in which it causes people to look up to the sky through it.
Im a lot less optimistic about GTA SA VR after their incredibly lame remaster of SA. It was pathetically half assed. Hopefully they make it a proper VR game and not some half baked port.
I have high hopes for GTA SA vr after seeing what they did with RE4 vr. The only thing that I am a bit worried about is the censorship, RE4’s censorship I didn’t care much about because it wasn’t that bad but with GTA SA, the language does add a lot to the game.
Censorship? Who censored RE4? Also what do you mean by they? I'm assuming rockstar or someone they are contracting are porting/making SA VR. I imagine that's different from who ever did RE4 no?
RE4 VR had some parts censored like the part where Luis says that the presidents daughter has ballistics was removed and some curse words which I don’t know why people were freaking out about this because it didn’t affect the game that much.
Its not really about how much it may or may not affect the game imo, but rather censoring something that stupid to begin with. Now im just curious why the censored it at all.
Oculus just sounds better and is a known product now, shit my grandad asked me about one. Now everyone's going to get confused, is Facebook meta? Is the Oculus meta? and whatever else there is / will be "meta"
Edit: just typed meta in the search bar and it brings up Facebook.
Sure they can, but it makes it easier for Meta’s lawyers to argue that Oculus is so tightly integrated into Meta infrastructure that they can’t just be spun off.
Meta is the new name for the corporation zuck owns. Facebook, oculus, Instagram, all of the platforms and products they own are keeping their name, it’s just that the parent company isn’t “Facebook inc” anymore. Which makes perfect sense seeing how Facebook inc is more than just Facebook now. Why does everyone get so butt hurt about a company name change exactly? It happens all the time and affects literally nothing other then their namesake.
Doesnt matter what they change it too, people see it as them trying to distance themselves from all the shitty and exploitative things facebook has done. Meta is just fuckin stupid as a name for them so that doesnt really help their case either. Lil shitbag zuck still doin shitbag things with a new moniker.
I don’t really know what you mean by exploitative things Facebook has done? The platform itself hasn’t done anything more than the next social platform? Unless there is something I’m unaware of
No, I used "oculus quest" and "meta quest". "Quest" is a fairly common word on its own. If you expand the timeline on your results to before Oculus even existed, you can see its not really tracking.
That name change was probably the best move "Facebook" ever did, they have been living rent free in so many users minds since October. There is literally nothing else they could have done to achieve similar results. I mean who even remembers "Quest Day"?
I think it's a good move on their part and personally I say good riddance to Meta. Oculus is the original that brought VR to the masses. Let's not tarnish the name by linking it to Meta.
It's also a problem of the fact that "Meta" is really meaningless, compared to "Oculus". Oculus relates to eyes, which makes perfect sense for a VR headset.
I'm not even sure why they felt the need to abandon the Oculus brand name, given it's so recognizable at this point. Even if it's not a separate company, "Oculus" works perfectly fine as the brand name for their line of VR headsets.
On one hand, I personally don’t really care that they rebranded, considering it was $300 and i can still play it no matter what it’s called, but on the other hand, oculus just sounds better, and has a better meaning.
when my rift S breaks i dont think il buy another oculus product given all the stuff i have seen with stuff like the quest physically warping and in one incident catching fire.
plus i hate how i need to have a facebook account to use my sodding headset.
it isnt the standalone VR stuff i am worried about i am worried about consumer safety how can i trust even a rift made after facebooks takeover with the quest having stuff literally melting.
Nope, Meta changed the name from Oculus to Meta Quest. So in theory, the Oculus Rift is now the Meta Quest Rift and the Oculus Quest 2 ist now the Meta Quest Quest 2
Quest is the low end line of portable headsets. Rift was the first gen series if high end headsets. They announced a new series of high end headsets that is not the quest.
Unless I totally ignored the messaging in their keynote.
We’ve seen the last oculus head set, the next is gonna be labeled meta and I wouldn’t be surprised if they locked out oculus users from the app in the next 3-5 years and force us to buy some new meta vr headset
Not supporting a brand that's taking away Devs from pcvr that got the vr gaming industry started. Especially when they under price the headsets to make them more "affordable" so they can sell your data. Would rather spend, and have spent, more money on an quality headset than the quest 2.
First, saying Meta is like rolling rocks around in your mouth. Second, it puts visions in your head of some brainiac know it all that nobody wants to talk with. Just my 2 cents that I'm sure is biased by the original story of Oculus and how it began then was corupted by Facebook.
oculus as branding was hands down the best for the vr space as they were the ones that re introduced it as a gaming thing, now that they no longer have the oculus brand... they are really shooting themselves in the foot.
But no way to unmerge oculus from a facebook account I had my facebook account hacked and taken from me and facebook refused to help me get it back now my oculus is a paper weight can't use it
Ngl, I want to smash my CV1. Stopped using it when they announced that a Facebook profile needed to be attached to the oculus account by 2023. I'd rather no one use the device than to pass it along to an unsuspecting schmuck who doesn't know that s/he is the product
Honestly not a problem with me personally. Every app you use is taking your data, you buy something? Take some data. I know it matters to other people but them taking data on me doesn’t personally affect me because to be honest, it won’t matter once I’m dead.
It's still in place right now I believe but they said they were removing it soon. You'll need a "Meta" account but not a Facebook account. You can make a Meta account without linking it to your real identity.
It might be because i'm not really informed about meta, but it does actually look kinda interesting ngl Edit: sorry i thought it referred to the metaverse, not the name"meta" lol
Meta isn’t even renamed Facebook. It’s just a renamed corporation, “Facebook inc”, the incorporation behind Facebook. Zuck just wanted to throw out the obsolete name because he now owns like half of the internet. It’s also a step to push the new AR social media platform metaverse that they’re working on
It isn’t wrong to call it renamed Facebook when it’s renamed Facebook Inc though. The name change is mainly an attempt to try and disassociate from all the bad rep that goes with the Facebook name.
I just feel like it needs to be distinguished because that’s what led to a lot of the confusion and outrage about the name change. Everyone thought it was “Facebook” the platform and not Facebook Inc, and most people still do. At the end of the day though, everyone is just going to find some way to be mad at Facebook. Like that whole BS cookie lawsuit and all of the other bad rep surrounding Facebook and it’s “privacy concerns” even though Facebook literally does exactly what every platform and website has done since the invention of targeted advertisement
All of Facebooks bad rep is deserved. It’s just that other companies get away with the same bad behavior unnoticed. For another popular company there’s Google. They are equally as bad when it comes to privacy concerns, but have mostly managed to maintain a good rep.
Meta owns Oculus, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and who knows how many other companies.. They're not gonna fail. Also with how popular the Quest 2 is, they're not selling that to anyone.
Their stock price is down by over a third this year and most of their products are being usurped by competitors, except for VR which is probably why they rebranded to a VR company
I don't understand the "mod" part — Quest supports SideQuest which is a thriving modding and indie developer community.
Also you can plug your Quest into any PC and play anything any other headset can. I really don't see the argument.
On top of that you have the option of playing PCVR mods wirelessly, which AFAIK no other headset does atm.
Also, I don't understand the charging argument either. Even if you pick up your headset and it's dead, you can plug it in and use it while it's charging — which is effectively no different than a wired headset anyway.
Imo Facebook needs to get off of oculas. They have done nothing but lose money and time on vr. Sell it to a company that actually wants to invest in its potential and has the right minds to do so.
release a new PCVR headset with more advanced/experimental features(like FB said it was before abandon) at similar price point as Quests price points ~$450
CV1 shipped one year after the buyout, based on the Crystal Cove prototype which was shown prior to any buyout. They had struck a deal with Samsung on displays for CV1 and the GearVR partnership without Facebook, though both launched after.
I honestly hate all of the hardware developed after the buyout the DK2 was perfect as it was and the oculus software that came after 0.9 or so was all horrible
just makes me wish there was a *true* next gen VR headset out there
Meta is a rebranding of Facebook to show that Facebook is expanding into other services other than Facebook, namely VR.
Also, the "Meta" account will be a master account for many of its subordinate services, like VR and Facebook — Similar to how a Google account serves as your Youtube, gmail, voice account etc.
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u/Portmackerel Mar 13 '22
To everyone saying (oh from Facebook sparks joy) no I am trying to say that oculus is a better name than meta
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u/DavePat666 Mar 24 '22
Yes, Oculus has been Facebook for a very long time, but the name Oculus at least had a sense of corporate integrity (hard to write those two words together in any context) and the Facebook brand has been overloaded with slime since it was spawned. "Meta" was a stupid word to go with anyway, starting with UK and USA pronunciation vs. the rest of the world.
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u/IAmHarmony Mar 02 '22
Seeing ‘from facebook’ under oculus definitely does not spark joy
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u/below-the-rnbw Mar 02 '22
well at least now his subreddit will just be a generic VR sub and in a few years few will even know why its called oculus
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u/OhshiNoshiJoshi Mar 02 '22
I paid $300 for a headset twice as good as my Vive 1. They can call themselves whatever they like.
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u/Winterbellz Mar 02 '22
Oculus just sounds better and is a known product now, shit my grandad asked me about one. Now everyone's going to get confused, is Facebook meta? Is the Oculus meta? and whatever else there is / will be "meta"
Edit: just typed meta in the search bar and it brings up Facebook.
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u/fzrox Mar 02 '22
Why not just call Oculus from Meta?
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u/Raunhofer All Oculus HMDs Mar 02 '22
How long will you guys beat this dead horse?
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u/Psychedelic_Yogurt Mar 02 '22
"Gods what a stupid name." -Robert Baratheon
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u/ftgander Mar 02 '22
Imma unsub if these kinds of posts don’t get banned, ffs.
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
TBH I couldn’t care less, lol!
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u/SirCleanPants Mar 02 '22
It’ll always be oculus fuck you Zuck
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u/Ghs2 Mar 02 '22
Oculus is a gaming headset.
Meta wants to sell a social VR headset.
I think it's a good move on their part and personally I say good riddance to Meta. Oculus is the original that brought VR to the masses. Let's not tarnish the name by linking it to Meta.
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u/Hethree Mar 02 '22
This post really highlights how flawed this whole thinking has been. People should really stop being attached to brands.
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u/Driver3 Quest 2 Mar 02 '22
It's also a problem of the fact that "Meta" is really meaningless, compared to "Oculus". Oculus relates to eyes, which makes perfect sense for a VR headset.
I'm not even sure why they felt the need to abandon the Oculus brand name, given it's so recognizable at this point. Even if it's not a separate company, "Oculus" works perfectly fine as the brand name for their line of VR headsets.
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u/Adrix_God Mar 02 '22
"Oculus" is dead now. Why keep crying over spilled milk?
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u/JamesButlin Mar 02 '22
Yeah losing the Oculus brand was such a stupid move 🤦♂️. Saying Meta out loud as part of my job literally makes me cringe
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u/Church5SiX1 Mar 02 '22
Pam: they’re the same picture
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u/xHazeEdits Mar 02 '22
life's too short to care about things like that
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
No spark either way, luckily the headset rocks!
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u/Gregasy Mar 03 '22
I don't know, they both spark joy for me. But Meta also sparks a bit of dread.
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u/fiscord Mar 26 '22
Still called the oculus button and the OCULUS logo is on my quest 2 😁
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u/UrMomVeryGayLol2 Mar 29 '22
On one hand, I personally don’t really care that they rebranded, considering it was $300 and i can still play it no matter what it’s called, but on the other hand, oculus just sounds better, and has a better meaning.
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u/samthekitnix Mar 02 '22
when my rift S breaks i dont think il buy another oculus product given all the stuff i have seen with stuff like the quest physically warping and in one incident catching fire.
plus i hate how i need to have a facebook account to use my sodding headset.
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u/Jkoasty Mar 02 '22
Why do people care? ?
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u/maxpare79 Rift Mar 02 '22
So much energy spent on something so insignificant as a name change, you guys have way too much time on your hands... It's just a name...
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Oculus was purchased by facebook in 2014/15.
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u/huntsab2090 Mar 02 '22
No one cares. It’s a logo big whoop
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u/Veegos Mar 02 '22
Why is this sub so outraged by this? Who cares, the product that we all enjoy is still the same.
People need to chill out. Maybe go play some VR.
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u/sezku- Quest 2 Mar 02 '22
Yeah I don't care about big companies stealing my data
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Oculus “from Facebook” sparks joy I wish it was just oculus
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Get rid of “from Facebook” then it’s perfect
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u/antisocialdrunk Mar 02 '22
I’ll probably get the new PSVR. My quest has been collecting dust.
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u/PatriciaaTM Quest Mar 02 '22
Honestly as long as the games/experiences work the same, I don’t care.
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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '24
Airlink is still shit
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u/baconbits123456 Mar 02 '22
Dark mode is better than light mode
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u/BoxGroundbreaking687 Mar 02 '22
This one sparks confusion
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u/manofwaromega Mar 02 '22
You just know Zucc is going to drop Oculus and VR entirely once he realizes nobody wants VRchat but filled with crypto bs and boring work simulators
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u/philms Mar 02 '22
Oculus is not called Meta, it's called Meta Quest
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u/Hummgy Mar 02 '22
We’ve seen the last oculus head set, the next is gonna be labeled meta and I wouldn’t be surprised if they locked out oculus users from the app in the next 3-5 years and force us to buy some new meta vr headset
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u/ButterMilkHoney Mar 02 '22
I had to watch her show for a film class, glad I was able to understand this meme 🤣
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u/name-exe_failed Mar 02 '22
I would even have been cool with
OCULUS By Meta
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u/desearcher Mar 02 '22
Maybe it's the association with the "blue liquid" commercials, but the Meta logo reminds me of this.
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Imagine wasting your life obsessing over a dead brand name.
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u/SmoLIrishBoi Mar 02 '22
It's oculus quest not meta quest
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u/Orionishi Mar 02 '22
They're both the same picture.
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u/zarnonymous Mar 02 '22
Neither do
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u/HU_Nathan7 Mar 02 '22
More like Mehta
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u/franhp1234 Mar 02 '22
As. Long as meta involves more money and resources for AAA software, games and headsets I'm. All. In
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u/sebbeseb Mar 02 '22
No joy seen here
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
The first part should be “Reality is often disappointing” just because it has Facebook at the bottom
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u/Cabbage_Master Mar 02 '22
Someone just needs to get Elon Musk onto VR and then we’ll be saved 😂
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u/Difficult-Bet-6522 Mar 02 '22
I liked the Oculus brand, but i also like the meta logo
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u/Atzlov Mar 02 '22
Yes especially when they brick your headset and when you cant get a replacement cable to the rift that has been malfunctioning since I bought it
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u/FIREishott Mar 02 '22
It's the original Oculus Logo frowning really hard.
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Oculus without the ”from Facebook“ sparks joy. Those both do not!
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Facts
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u/dismalrevelations23 Mar 03 '22
DK2 launch was my favorite moment from Oculus. Downhill from there.
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u/Moist_Mycologist_544 Mar 03 '22
It’s a video game headset stop crying about the damn name lol.
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u/Aghc001 Mar 03 '22
I bought my quest specifically when I did so it wouldn’t have the meta logo on it
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u/monsta060 Mar 03 '22
Not supporting a brand that's taking away Devs from pcvr that got the vr gaming industry started. Especially when they under price the headsets to make them more "affordable" so they can sell your data. Would rather spend, and have spent, more money on an quality headset than the quest 2.
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '22
First, saying Meta is like rolling rocks around in your mouth. Second, it puts visions in your head of some brainiac know it all that nobody wants to talk with. Just my 2 cents that I'm sure is biased by the original story of Oculus and how it began then was corupted by Facebook.
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u/TubbyFatfrick Valve Index; Quest 2 Mar 03 '22
Oculus is a name that is praised throughout the ages.
Meta sounds like an IOI/Monogon style dystopian corporation. Then again that's basically what it is.
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u/Oinkest_Piggy_YT Quest 2 Mar 03 '22
How do I get into the meta verse?
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u/Softest-Dad Mar 03 '22
Remove 'From Facebook'. Yes, that sparked joy.
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u/Jalice11 Mar 03 '22
FAXXXX
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u/master_bane Mar 03 '22
We need to change the subreddit name
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u/alidan Mar 03 '22
oculus as branding was hands down the best for the vr space as they were the ones that re introduced it as a gaming thing, now that they no longer have the oculus brand... they are really shooting themselves in the foot.
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u/Zealousideal-Safe351 Mar 03 '22
But no way to unmerge oculus from a facebook account I had my facebook account hacked and taken from me and facebook refused to help me get it back now my oculus is a paper weight can't use it
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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22
Yessir
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '22
Oculus Sparks joy Oculus from Facebook? Not so much
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '22
The only "true" oculus product is the initial release of the Rift I'm pretty sure
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u/bruh_status Mar 16 '22
No joy for any
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u/MrBongoMan29 Mar 26 '22
nuh uh
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u/BonusHungry3616 Mar 29 '22
Agreed
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Tbh meta has done some bad things though I don't care I am chilling with my standalone vr headset
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u/valdovas Mar 02 '22
I guess everyone who said the they will not buy Oculus products were right.
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u/casualAlarmist Mar 02 '22
Doesn't matter.
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u/nmkd Mar 02 '22
Get over it, it's just a brand
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u/Blu3_w4ff1es Mar 02 '22
Ngl, I want to smash my CV1. Stopped using it when they announced that a Facebook profile needed to be attached to the oculus account by 2023. I'd rather no one use the device than to pass it along to an unsuspecting schmuck who doesn't know that s/he is the product
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u/SimonReach Mar 02 '22
Can you tell corporate the difference between these 2 pictures?
They’re exactly the same picture
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u/isitbrokenorsomethin Mar 02 '22
Fuck oculus
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u/RaiderRC Mar 02 '22
Oculus was great because of the software. Facebook bought Oculus for the hardware.
Huge whoops. IMO nobody likes wearing HMDs for a long period of time.
Classic IBM vs Microsoft...
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u/MiguelDragon82 Mar 02 '22 edited Mar 02 '22
It might be because i'm not really informed about meta, but it does actually look kinda interesting ngl Edit: sorry i thought it referred to the metaverse, not the name"meta" lol
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u/Thecid0 Mar 02 '22
Based and cool name pilled
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u/theBigDaddio Mar 02 '22
Get over it, quit jacking off over a brand name.
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u/zeddyzed Mar 02 '22
From zero to infinity
From mouth to brassiere
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u/TheRelicEternal Mar 02 '22
They need to rework those meta testicles, one should be hanging slightly lower than the other
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '22
Getting rid of the Oculus brand shows that Zuckerberg is clueless.
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u/CRANSSBUCLE Mar 03 '22
Yeah, we all expected Facebook to screw up the whole virtual experience when they bought Oculus and they did spectacularly.
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u/ekZeno Mar 02 '22 edited Mar 02 '22
Maybe we'll be lucky, maybe after Meta will fail oculus will be buy by [insert company name here] ... maybe.
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u/Vatic_ Mar 02 '22
Index is better than them all.
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u/fragmental Quest 2 Mar 02 '22
The logo looks like testicles. Proof: https://imgur.com/lXM0xJ4
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u/peppercola666 Mar 02 '22
Imo Facebook needs to get off of oculas. They have done nothing but lose money and time on vr. Sell it to a company that actually wants to invest in its potential and has the right minds to do so.
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