Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps

Re:Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps by RandallBrown on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @05:44PM (#27533812)

I thought VR was a goofy gimmick until I bought an Oculus Quest and played with it.

From my point of view they drastically improved both the Oculus brand and the overall opinion of VR as a usable technology.

Oculus may have done that without Facebook or it may have stayed tethered to a PC and continued to be awkward to use. I don't really know.

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Re:Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps by chaostheory on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @08:09PM (#27534902)

I don't feel that Oculus could have done it alone with the Quest 2. Facebook's big contribution is the $300 price discount that they're eating with every Quest 2 unit sold.

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Re:Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps by esyir on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:38AM (#27536179)

And their ml competencies. They were the first to market with high quality inside out tracking. That was the game changer for low friction vr. Even now they're a distant first place there.

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Re:Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps by chaostheory on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:28AM (#27539333)

Seriously asking, is there any other inside out system that works well? From my experience, WMR is terrible at that.

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Re:Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps by xarope on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @06:46PM (#27534342)

I really like the Quest 2 as a standalone (non-tethered) device, I hope FB doesn't end up killing it...!

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