Anything that gets more activity I would support for now. The main problem is just lack of critical mass in any fediverse platform for VR converations.

I’m very interested to see what Samsung comes out with. The Odyssey was a great device and they have superb hardware expertise in all kinds of ways. In some ways they are better positioned than Apple (for example, in-house display manufacturing etc).

Google - I have no idea about, it’s been so long since I saw them deliver something new and convincing on the software front.

sorry … they made the change after I posted it.

The explanation from iVRy:

It’s running HDMI to a frame-grabber, which is then compressing the image and sending it over USB to a Linux box which is then decompressing and displaying it. There is zero value looking at performance at this point. No, a released driver wouldn’t work like this at all.

And of course, it needs external trackers, controllers etc.

EDIT: ok that’s more about how they recorded the footage than the implementation. I don’t know how it works!

There are quite a few games that I play for a month or two and then it’s done and dusted. Any time something I actually want to buy like that is in the subscription, I might as well just get the subscription and I have it for $8 instead of the normal price. If you treat it like that, this seems like a good deal. But I don’t know how often they are going to list games that (a) I want enough to buy it but (b) didn’t buy it already.

It underscores how bad Meta’s marketing has really been I think. They try but I actually find their ads for Quest off putting. They could learn from Apple and pitch to a broader market with some pretty basic things (viewing movies etc) and easily present a very compelling narrative I think (for example: with 1 Vision Pro you can watch a movie all by yourself and be lonely but for the same price you can buy 7 Quest 3’s and have your whole family or friends there with you - this shouldn’t be a hard sell!).