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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by VRay on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:52AM (#28932199)
Yeah.. I’m a bigger VR fan than most, but nobody has figured out the UX for it or any killer use cases yet. I don’t think Facebook is particularly likely to be able to ship something that can compete with whatever Microsoft or Apple can put out, either

BUT if it only costs then a few dozen billion to take a stab at it, they may as well. We can see what a disaster the mobile platforms locking down Facebook’s spying has been for their ad business

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by kaibee on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:15PM (#28933243)
The issue is that we have like 40 years of UX improvement for desktops and now have super high resolution monitors that make that UX experience usable. We have like 5 years for VR and 0 years with a high enough resolution to make it usable. I think once high resolution enough VR comes out it'll pretty much be "oh I don't need monitors anymore, but keyboards/mice are still pretty much ideal for text entry/knowledge work, so lets keep those. probably more standing desks also." The metaverse thing is a solution in search of a problem, and in Facebook's case, clearly a solution in search of more money.
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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by vineyardmike on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:45PM (#28935296)
> I don’t think Facebook is particularly likely to be able to ship something that can compete with whatever Microsoft or Apple can put out, either

Yes, but the Oculus Quest 2 is pretty good for the price, and fact that its probably 5 years earlier than anything anyone else is putting out. They're really actually trying it seems, which is pretty welcome.

I honestly think the coolest aspects of it are the simple AR-ish things they're doing (hand tracking, keyboard tracking, the camera based zone for where you can walk, etc).

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by advrs on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:12PM (#28935788)
I don't understand how you say this when Oculus Quest 2 (owned by FB, of course) is probably the best + most popular VR experience. Is it early days? Yes, of course. But this quasi-religious idea that only Apple (or Microsoft? lol..) can create the "2.0" or "3.0" VR experience is a bit lacking in evidence.

Not that I am saying FB will necessarily be the ones, but I think the only honest position is that "the jury's still out" on who owns this one.

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by screye on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:56PM (#28935504)
On the flip side VR is just 1 UX innovation away from blowing up.

The rate of gains in mobile computing (M1x), mobile vision (pixel 6 pro) and mobile sensors will make the technical and monetary barriers to VR dissapear within the next 5 years.

Whatsapp was a small.iterative change to chat apps and it cost them $20 billion. Spending a few billions to get ahead on the next paradigm in interactive experience simply prudent spending.

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by stcredzero on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:12PM (#28936709)
A big part of the UX problem is the form factor. Same story as early 2000's "tablet computers."
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