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      Are you talking about the article itself or the fact that I posted it here?

      People may hate meta with a passion, and I totally understand that and have similar feelings, but they are pushing the industry forward. At least for now. You can say what you want about them, Quest 3 release is certainly the biggest news of this year and probably for the next year as well.

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        Are you talking about the article itself or the fact that I posted it here?

        Both.

        As for the product, I’m not judging the product. No matter what it was, as soon as I can tell the article is a paid advertisement, I say so here.

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          So you’re saying it’s an actual ad that they’re paid for? I haven’t seen anything suggesting that but it might have passed me by

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        I’d rather the industry take forever to grow than see it under Meta’s influence.

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    The Quest 3 is one of the most solid inexpensive VR headsets out there. This is great for VR.

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      There’s certainly very little competition for standalone headsets

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    Can you use it w/o a Meta/Facebook account? If not, it’s still a hard pass from me. Not one red fuckin cent for them.

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      I watched a bit of the presentation. The Quest 3 was like 5m at the beginning then the rest played out like an AI infused dystopian nightmare. Facebook is building AI “personalities” with real faces and predetermined personalities for people to go to for advice. They’re giving people tools to train their own AI characters for whatever purpose they want. Furthermore, they’re encouraging businesses to use custom versions of these AI characters for use as a customer service front-end on the internet.

      After that, they showed off ray-ban glasses with cameras hidden in the frames and AI built into them.

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        The Connect is absolutely terrible to watch and even though I‘ve seen enough of them to know better I keep talking a look. It’s just awful all around.

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      You can use it without a Facebook account, but I’m guessing the issue isn’t the account and rather the company behind it. I don’t see a way around that.

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    Honestly the Q2 has been a great experience overall. Mind you I mostly play PCVR titles but the ability to turn on my windows hotspot and connect the Q2 and play via Virtual Desktop has been killer. (I use Virtual Desktop over the built-in functions because it allows me to tweak settings).

    My biggest issues with it have been.

    1. Battery life (not changed by the 3)
    2. Keeping my center vision focused on that sweet spot which should be improved between the new lenses (making the sweet spot bigger) and the more balance headset. (so hopefully I don’t have to use skull crushing pressure to keep it on that sweet spot)
    3. The fact that I opted for the 64gb version when I bought mine (which I can now correct)

    So I bit the bullet and pre ordered. Finger crossed.

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      What native games have you been playing that the storage became an issue?

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      Reading reviews that there is no Sweet Spot for the Q3… As in the whole lense is a sweet spot!

      Did you get the 128, or 512?

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          yea, thats how i feel.

          I got the 64 gb Q2, and managed to recently fill it up… though its not hard to delete and reinstall games.

          Figured id get the larger, but its so much more, for not that much storage. If it was like a 1tb drive, i could undertand it…

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    It’s really just a huge shame that this will likely be the best VR experience you can get off the shelf

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      I can’t help but wonder how much facebook’s stigma might be stifling enthusiasm toward the Quest.

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        Tons. I don’t care what they pack into the thing, I’m never buying any of their products. I’ll go back to using a fuckin’ Virtual Boy before I get involved with Facebook. I’ll stay in flatland forever, if I have to.

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    TL;DR: $500 for 128GB, $650 for 512GB. Asgards Wrath 2 is included if you buy until January 27, 2024. The 512GB model also includes 6 months of Quest Plus (2 games per month while you have the subscription). XR2 Gen 2 chip with twice the power, 30% higher resolution pancake lenses, 110° fov horizontal and 96 vertical.