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Meta Connect and their new Virtual Reality Headset
IGN ^ | Sep 27 | BY JACQUELINE THOMAS

Posted on 09/27/2023 8:32:57 PM PDT by RandFan

Meta Quest 3 - Mixed Reality for All?

The Meta Quest 2 was a virtual reality headset, and while the Meta Quest 3 can do that, it differs by having cameras that allow your content to exist in the same world you do. It does this with two dedicated color sensors and a depth sensor that will allow you to do things like previewing furniture in your room.

Meta Quest 3 will also support Xbox Cloud Streaming. That doesn't mean that everything on Xbox Game Pass will be VR, but instead it's taking the Apple Vision Pro approach, projecting a giant virtual screen into your environment that you can sit and play games on with a regular controller.

Under the hood, the Meta Quest 3 is powered by the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2, which has a massively more powerful GPU and will allow more VR games to run natively on the Quest, when previously you'd have to play games tethered to one of the best gaming PCs.

Meta claims the Meta Quest 3 is the most powerful VR and MR headset ever, but we'll have to wait and see how it pans out in our review. However, with the price tag going up to $499, it might be a little harder to afford for "everyone." But either way, you can buy it Oct. 10, 2023

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Is anyone buying this? Or is this Meta thing a complete flop?

I like the look of Apple's product that is coming out next year but it'll be pricey (at first) but looks much better then Zuckerberg's.

Interesting to note Zuckerberg has staked the whole future of his company on this product offering and yet I dont know if it'll take off.

1 posted on 09/27/2023 8:32:57 PM PDT by RandFan
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Here’s an interesting analysis from the BBC

They’ve lost $21 billion on this nonsense so far - in ONE YEAR!

Remember the metaverse?

For a while it dominated tech news. A virtual reality world that would be so immersive, so engaging, that we would want to spend part of our lives in it.

Driving the metaverse narrative was Mark Zuckerberg.

The tech billionaire was so committed that in October 2021 he changed Facebook’s name to Meta.

...

Reality Labs - which as the name suggests is Meta’s virtual and augmented reality branch - has lost a staggering $21 billion since last year.

Part of the losses reflect long-term investment. Meta wasn’t expecting short-term returns. But the worrying fact for the company is that, so far, there is very little evidence that this enormous punt will work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66913551


2 posted on 09/27/2023 8:40:43 PM PDT by RandFan
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someone with $$ should snap up the “Facebook” name unless zuckerberg still has control of it


3 posted on 09/27/2023 8:45:52 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: RandFan

For my own part the VR headset product is getting there. Early stuff required expensive computer hardware into the face of crazy GPU prices, and even then simplistic — a very expensive version of mobile-game quality.

The FB/Meta line is hideous. It’s so obviously a huge ploy to once again suck everyone’s data into the big social media hell; and the push is so strong you have to hunt to find a set that *isn’t* theirs. (easy enough online, but if the kids want VR and you go to a store?)

The big names that are pushing WEF agenda stuff have bailed right out of VR/Meta and are going full bore on GenAI — with exactly the same agenda. Know everything about everyone, decide what people can know and see, and have the power to unperson anyone who doesn’t like it. It has a similar problem, though; The Agenda includes less electricity for everyone and GenAI requires tons of it, worse than the crypto mining insanity.


4 posted on 09/27/2023 9:02:37 PM PDT by No.6
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If Meta can absorb a $21 billion loss in one year, imagine how much personal money Zuck can pour into the Big Steal ‘24 program.


5 posted on 09/27/2023 9:02:39 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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That loss is staggering (21 billion). I’m sure it’s going to have consequences sooner or later.

Apple will blow him out of the water I think.


6 posted on 09/27/2023 9:06:26 PM PDT by RandFan
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"looks much better then"


When?
7 posted on 09/27/2023 11:00:03 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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So... It’s a glorified stupid waste of time like SecondLife?

Wow, Zuck is gonna’ blow alot of money on this dog.
Or maybe he thinks it’s going to be the new thing in 3D pornography and make billions?


8 posted on 09/27/2023 11:25:15 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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He does... Of course.


9 posted on 09/27/2023 11:26:37 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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