Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
by thw0rted on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:06AM
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A big part of the draw for Oculus is platform-exclusives. Even if the hardware is obsolete, the catalog of games you bought on their store isn't, and if that's tied to staying in their hardware ecosystem when you upgrade....
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
by Macha on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @08:09AM
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Certainly there are better headsets out now than the original Vive, but I'm not sure I'd classify it as obsolete. You can still take a modern VR title and play it and get the full experience. Calling the original Vive obsolete at this stage would be like calling 1080p monitors obsolete.
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:26PM
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Tracking keeps improving in important ways, the resolution is not amazing, and we still have more than two years before we actually hit the point where I'm saying it will be obsolete.
Did you just predict it happening "eventually"?
If you predicted it would happen before your headset was obsolete, I'd say you were wrong. And that's usually the important part for making a purchase. Six to seven years is enough lifetime for an early VR kit.