Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
by PaulsWallet on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @06:38PM
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This is such a weirdly aggressive comment. I'm not saying you have to trust Facebook but there are much better ways to shake Oculus users down for money than risk getting caught watching people on the toilet through their VR cameras.
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
by skyyler on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @07:03PM
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Why are you imagining petty voyeurism? I'm imagining more like "scan the room for products recently purchased at non-amazon retailers" or "identify how many worker-consumers are in the room and how engaged they are with The Product"
Data, not video or pictures.
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
by dmix on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @07:57AM
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I bought all of those products with credit cards, usually on Amazon. I highly doubt that's useful information for FB to mine (and it would destroy their product line if it came out they were doing that).
I just made a mental list of all of the items in my office room where I use Quest and the face I own a Macbook and some high end speakers/chair/desk/monitor and an iPhone is really not that interesting to anyone.
I'm way more concerned by my mobile phone or browser where I actual engage with personal information.
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
by CursedUrn on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:06PM
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Petty voyeurism will happen (we've seen enough stories about this with Amazon Alexa) but I agree that's nowhere near the main problem with this kind of technology.
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
by parkingrift on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @06:15AM
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And I am saying you absolutely should not trust the least trustworthy company in tech.
They definitely don’t see the VR devices as a gateway to another frontier on data collection. That’s why they paid billions for Oculus and then spent billions to sell the Quest devices at a loss.
Ignore the fact that one of basic features of the Quest is to scan your room and build a play area. Just give FB a burner account and you’re set they definitely won’t be able to tie that data together it’s not like they built their entire business around doing that.