Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus headsets

Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by GuB-42 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:45AM (#27539494)

The Vive Pro 2 is absurdly expensive ($1400) compared to the Oculus offering.

The Vive Pros are at its name implies, for pros, or for people with big budgets who want the best. You simply can't compare.

I think that if you don't want to buy Oculus and have a reasonable budget (~$400), WMR headsets are the only alternative.

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by driverdan on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:59AM (#27539638)

That's like saying you can't compare a top of the line MacBook to a $300 HP laptop. The Pro 2 hardware specs are significantly better than the Oculus and the price isn't being subsidized in exchange for feeding your data into Facebook.

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by novok on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:06PM (#27545468)

There are cheaper alternatives than the vive pro 2, like the hp reverb. The vive pro 2 is just the 3090 of VR at the moment.

The real differentiator is the cord free aspect of the quest 2.

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by sneak on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:31PM (#27545170)

> The Vive Pro 2 is absurdly expensive ($1400) compared to the Oculus offering.

Letting ads and Facebook behavioral surveillance into your life is way more expensive yet.

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