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Re:Even people who bought Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses don’t... by notahacker on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:44AM (#36999182)
> People don’t trust Google or Facebook

yeah, even non-HNers aren't likely to want to use hardware tied to something called "Facebook View" to manage their photos (it actually doesn't sync photos with Facebook unless you specifically ask it to never mind having any means to display ads or inject viral videos and political content into your eyeballs, but if they need to explain that...)

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Re:Even people who bought Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses don’t... by vidarh on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:52AM (#36999282)
If they only optionally sync it's better than I thought - clearly they're explaining badly enough that even some articles I've seen about it didn't mention that was optional.
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Re:Even people who bought Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses don’t... by dylan604 on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:09AM (#37000305)
>yeah, even non-HNers aren't likely to want to use hardware tied to something called "Facebook View"

The sales of Oculus Quest units seems to disagree

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Re:Even people who bought Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses don’t... by cykotic on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:21AM (#37000464)
People don’t trust Facebook but still use Facebook. I believe given two equally good implementations of a product the one made by Facebook will be less popular. As it stands now Oculus is the only standalone VR device and people will use it despite being owned by Facebook.
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Re:Even people who bought Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses don’t... by psd1 on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:32PM (#37002278)
When I got my Oculus, it was half the price of the Vive. I always assumed that zuck is eating a loss to capture eyeballs.
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