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

Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by shafyy on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:47AM (#27539509)

FWIW, the ads are not on the platform level, but inside individual games and apps. For now. (I also despise ads)

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by SaltyBackendGuy on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:58AM (#27539630)

> but inside individual games and apps.

IMO that's worse. You spend more time in game than on the menu screen. Sadly this is likely a pandoras box we will not be able to close.

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by lawl on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:08AM (#27539724)

> Sadly this is likely a pandoras box we will not be able to close.

Valve has tried that a long time ago too and it wasn't successful. There's still some hope.

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by tpxl on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:14PM (#27544567)

Valve had ads in games?

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by lawl on Thursday June 17, 2021 @08:52PM (#27546159)

yes.

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by tpxl on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:19PM (#27555614)

Thanks for the links. That is bonkers and I'm glad it didn't turn out.

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by BEEdwards on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:58AM (#27539626)

That's worse...

Can't even use escapist reality to escape from ads now.

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Re:Virtual reality ads make their way to Facebook's Oculus h... by jonplackett on Thursday June 17, 2021 @10:41AM (#27540089)

Still using platform-level data though.

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