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 […]

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 […]

  • Jastas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This ^ That is all the same exact reasoning I thought of when I purchased my Valve Index this year. Sure, it’s older hardware at this point but I want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook’s ecosystem as well.

    • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.orgEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t it still take a beast-machine to power the index? I have a gen1 vive and went from a 980 GTX to a 1080 Ti and the performance was still pretty much shit. I haven’t really touched VR since then.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Those are old GPUs you know. You can get a very VR-capable RTX card now from the 30 or 40 series for relatively cheap. 3060TI is doing well for my setup.

        • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.orgEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          It’s been years so I have no idea how those newer GPUs do on VR. I image with DLSS you can push those resolutions pretty darn high.