Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by vrperson on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:53AM (#24884816)

So far, targeted ads don't really seem to work that well (studies have found). I don't think getting the size of my rooms will be that much of an improvement. They can infer maybe how much money I have, but they can probably already guess that from my address and my credit card company also knows. It's not even clear that the data about my rooms is transferred to Facebook.

I don't think making better targeted ads is the play here. I think they want to dominate social networking, and they think a lot of social networking will take place in VR in the future.

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Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by RhodoYolo on Thursday October 29, 2020 @01:05PM (#24932652)

This is complete nonsense and doesn't pass the face-value check. Why would all the tech companies hire thousands of engineers to fine tune an algorithmn that was proven to be worse?

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Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by osobo on Sunday October 25, 2020 @05:11AM (#24884894)

Can you link me one of those studies? Assuming it's about modern hyper-targeted social media content based advertising, not last decade's old-school banners.

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Re:Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good by KaiserPro on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:14PM (#24888511)

room shape isn't exactly a killer segmentation for advertising.

The content inside a room would be. But it would costa shittonne in GPU time to do that reliably, so it would cost a boatload.

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