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Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by cesarb on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:22PM (#24779812)
> For each of these, there are multiple vendors to choose from, except for standalone devices. In this case, the Oculus Quest is unique. There's no other competition.

The only VR headsets I've seen so far in stores around here (a major metropolitan city) are headsets with only the lenses, in which you slot your own smartphone as the screen and CPU. Wouldn't these also count as standalone devices in your classification?

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Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by jaaron on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:17PM (#24781066)
As the others noted, those platforms are all deprecated now. Even when they weren't, they didn't give anywhere near the experience of other headsets.

[I've had the Google cardboard, DayDream and the Samsung Gear headsets.]

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Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by bikezen on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:26PM (#24779861)
Google has killed daydream, Samsung also killed GearVR and their VR video stuff. I don't know if there are others that will still work in this kind of headset, so not sure how relevant is anymore.
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Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by blkhawk on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:49AM (#24785618)
These are so crappy in comparison that i wouldn't even call them VR. The Quest is several generations ahead.

Its like comparing a pre-model-T car with a car from 1950. You might argue that for some purposes both are equivalent but that doesn't capture the qualitative improvement that has happened almost everywhere. Everything is improved and some areas feel perfected in comparison.

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Re:Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account by zwily on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:43PM (#24780683)
They’re kind of gimmicky, and don’t give the 6DOF you get with the Quest.
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