Re:Facebook has 10k engineers working on AR/VR
by neartheplain on Monday March 15, 2021 @04:40AM
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Facebook has sold multiple millions of Quests, and are on track to sell a lot more. Anecdotally, lots of non-technical people in my life have jumped on it. Even my older, non-technical parents have enjoyed repeated games of VR mini-golf.
https://www.roadtovr.com/facebook-rec-room-2-3m-oculus-quest...
Re:Facebook has 10k engineers working on AR/VR
by flukus on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:43PM
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A few million really isn't much when you're trying to create an attractive platform and break the chicken and egg problem of no software -> no users -> no software. The WiiU for instance is widely considered to be a flop and never garnered much developer support, it sold 13 million units.
Re:Facebook has 10k engineers working on AR/VR
by JKCalhoun on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:15PM
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Link "‘Rec Room’ Studio Estimates Facebook Sold 2-3M..."
Estimates.
Re:Facebook has 10k engineers working on AR/VR
by neartheplain on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:21PM
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The estimate is based on Rec Room’s metric of unique Quest user downloads, and as such is likely very accurate. Based on their data, the absolute floor of Quest units sold is well over 1M.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShawnRecRoom/status/1357839404459...
So it's difficult to imagine a future where VR becomes a bigger part of Facebook's business than Facebook/IG/Whatsapp. I don't imagine I'm going to be visiting grandpa in the metaverse to look at family photos any time soon.