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Re:Oculus Quest 2 by underwater on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:42PM (#24498316)
That's a bit of a stretch. Facebook uses data to improve ad targetting on their own platforms. They're not selling your HR or fitness data to your insurance company or anything crazy like that.

Facebook generated $29 per user in the US last year. A small bit of extra info about people's gaming habits is not going to improve ad targetting enough to make up for a $100 gap in price.

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Re:Oculus Quest 2 by GekkePrutser on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @07:59PM (#24499535)
They're not selling that data yet.

But it's clear from the reviews the $100 was mainly achieved by cost-cutting.

They may still lose some money on it but that's just an investment in becoming market leader in VR.

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