Comment by fxtentacle | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fxtentacle | Hacker News Reader

Eww...

Meta is dead in the water with most gamers after they locked people out of their purchases and tried to shove a mandatory facebook login down everyone's throat.

Pimax is famous for over-promising and under-delivering - if they deliver at all, that is. Reddit is full of people complaining that they still haven't received their purchases from the launch before the last new announcement.

Apple’s Vision Pro was the price of a used car and you need to voluntarily lock yourself into Apple's ecosystem and pay 30% of all revenue to Apple for the privilege, so VR's biggest market (which is gaming) just said FY Apple and that's why it's one of the products with the highest return rate ever.

So you have Spyware vs. Vaporware vs. Masochism as your options. What a surprise that sales are down !!!! (not really)

I am in the market for a high-res VR headset for gaming. But there isn't any product for me to buy. Quest and Apple don't play well with PC. And for Pimax there's no shop actually selling them. (The article seems to agree, too. They have sales links to Meta and Apple, but no link for Pimax.)

You can try getting an older HP Reverb G2. Microsoft discontinued Mixed Reality, but with the Oasis driver, you can still use them with Steam VR. They are usually pretty cheap too because they are discontinued. They are usually about $200 on Ebay right now.

Pretty high resolution, but they don't have foveated rendering so you need a beefy rig to run it.

Thanks for pointing out that Oasis driver, it looks really promising. I was struggling on deciding what to do with my old Mixed Reality hardware. This Lenovo Explorer kit was quite a deal back in the day. I played a lot of flight and space sims with it.

Yeah, one of my teammates in DCS just got one off a friend and I was like "Wasn't that discontinued?" Then he's like nope, some Microsoft developer wrote an open source driver! Although it has trouble with Windows 10 I guess. I'm pretty excited to fly in VR again!

> Meta is dead in the water with most gamers after they locked people out of their purchases and tried to shove a mandatory facebook login down everyone's throat.

They're literally going to have to wait until the next generation comes of age and has disposable money to spend on a VR headset. And even then, they'd better hope that generation didn't listen to their parents' warnings.

There's lots of rumors/leaks that Valve has a successor to the index coming very soon that may check all the boxes for you, it may be worth keeping an eye out for that.

I would love to see that, the Valve index was pretty good. Also, in terms of companies which actually care about their customers, Valve is also one of the top.

> shove a mandatory facebook login down everyone's throat.

This hasn't been the case for many years now (they corrected, almost immediately). You need a Meta account, which is extremely minimal. After making that, you can optionally link facebook.

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