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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    1 year ago

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

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      I’d use VR for work if I could afford it. But not from the take all you personal dada and sell it company.

        • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          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.

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            1 year 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

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