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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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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We're broke as fuck, we can not afford that shit. Money is better spent elsewhere than a VR "workstation".

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also their cheaper option is great for 1/3 or less of the price

[–] stigmata@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

And for 500 it's getting even better than all other options next month.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 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.

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months 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.

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 5 points 9 months 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

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For real. Even if I did have enough money to go buy something that's that much I'd rather get literally anything else

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For that price I can buy a used ThinkPad AND set it up for work in a literal strip club. Thats the price tag.

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[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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