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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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[-] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

No it's "literally" been reduced to $1000.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And now, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is literally resorting to giving them away for free: Attendees of this year's developer conference for the global gaming platform Roblox each got a free Meta Quest Pro

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I feel so dumb for buying an index, I barely use it.

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I don't really regret it, because it was a truly awesome experience while it was fresh, and I probably sunk hundreds of hours into it over the pandemic. But yeah, it does get old surprisingly quickly, and there are literally no new games for it that aren't arcade-style trash from the past few years.

Sadly, I think HL:A was the peak of VR gaming, and it's all been downhill from there.

Maybe when standalones get powerful enough that they can run "real" games, it'll kickoff again, but I don't think I've put on my headset in months at this point, and there's nothing on the horizon that's likely to make me grab it again any time soon

[-] float@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Have you played Superhot VR? It's one of my favorite VR games.

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[-] maniel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ummm I want one free!

[-] malloc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

If it’s free; you are the product.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'll take a Quest again for free. Gimme.

[-] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 2 points 1 year ago

Should've gone to the Roblox developer conference lol

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's the catch? I have to be a Roblox dev? 🤢

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