Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
by arrakeen on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:32PM
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to someone who is prone to headaches with poor eyesight and long eyelashes (smudges the lenses), the idea of working in VR all day is at best delusional and at worst discriminatory
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
by esyir on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:45PM
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I'd say claiming that the concept of working in VR is discriminatory is at at the very least extreme hyperbole.
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
by kranke155 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:35PM
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This can’t be good for your eyes. Making people blind long term doesn’t seem like a good product strategy.
I know a bunch of people who use it daily. They are all using Immersed[0] for work (disclosure, I'm an investor, but I invested because of the love their early customers had for the platform). Basically, you get a bunch of virtual monitors in VR.
It's way cheaper and much more portable than dragging five massive screens around, and the isolation is the point -- you can focus better when you have the headset on and headphones in.
But you're right, that is a niche, and not the social product Meta is hoping for.
[0] https://immersed.com