Good point, based on how much Meta spends on their XR department I wouldn’t be shocked if the hardware itself is also losing money and used as a kind of innovation-washing marketing strategy. That said I’d still recommend buying 2nd hand so that it’s cheaper and doesn’t register on their book as a sale. Also no purchase information shared with Meta.
Recommendations
There are others, e.g. https://simulavr.com/ which is standalone and Linux proper (not Android), but I haven’t tried so I can’t vouch for them.
according to https://github.com/zhuowei/cheese/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-versions
Well I would ask you to reconsider reconsidering. It’s a very neat technical fear, arguably even an important one… but you would be giving money to Meta. So unless you really have to, because you work in the domain, maybe try to recycle a 2nd hand headset for a cheaper price and tinker with it as much as you want? Maybe even contribute to the rooting process by finding ways to remove the Meta account requirement altogether?
TL:DR: nobody needs a XR headset but if you do and you want to get a Meta one, get it 2nd hand.
Rational economical actor hypothesis? Nope we’re just back 4 centuries at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Rift isn’t standalone so “just” using OpenHMD should work, cf https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/hardware/#xr-devices for more comparability checks.
Because of physics.
Pfff, physics, pesky detail! Clearly you are not a true visionary like Musk! /s
puts on evil hat CloudFlare should DRM their protection then DMCA Perplexity and other US based “AI” companies to oblivion. Side effect, might break the Internet.
Which VR headset? Don’t have problem with Valve Index or Quests.
block the site from being acessed from florida though if they choose
How? I do not think we know of a reliable way, DNS blocking get bypassed by alternative DNS ( and ISP probably do not have per state DNSes) , IP blocking get bypassed via VPN, etc. They can say they did put in place something but it is like puttimg a fence without walls around, it is just symbolic.
they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them
They might want to try LMS and its https://github.com/epoupon/lms?tab=readme-ov-file#music-discovery
easy to transfer to other countries
Also easy to transfer with IBAN and relatively cheap … so I guess other countries that do not rely on IBAN?
I was going to get rage-baited into making a “point” about reasoning and how Trump wasn’t a “native” American… but I’m resisting the engagement temptation. There is no “logic”, it’s all about gathering privileges then justifying how to prevent others from doing the same. There is no reasoning, no logic, not even ideology.
Half-life: Alyx
curios
Maybe you could become CuriOS… like operating system curious? OK I’ll see myself out.
It’s not a “community” it’s a video server. I’m sharing video content I made.
I could open up the federation aspect and letting you and others comment, helping it to scale, but for now I chose not to.
There are PeerTube instances doing that though, i.e. federating, allowing comments from the instance, other instances, also content that is paid for. My instance though again is not like that.
I find it surprising that someone on Lemmy makes assumption about centralization and consequently homogenization. My instance does NOT try to reproduce YouTube yet I believe, I hope at least, does provide again potential “content” to viewers. It’s never going to be YouTube but for me that’s OK, in fact I would argue, that’s better.
Edit: initial comment made no reference to a “community” FWIW.
I did some live streams in the past. I share the link to my instance below. I can’t speak for large audiences.
You don’t think the link I give helps potential viewers by showing there is content out there?
Be the change you want to see. Here is my instance https://video.benetou.fr/ even if nobody cares, I tried.
It is indeed a risk AND you must pin your current OS version, so no new update including no new feature (not sure which one one would need for now though) but more importantly no security updates.
That being said… if you do not actively try to mess it up, i.e. doing precisely what has been warned against NOT doing, it should be safe.
In doubt, if you can’t afford another headset, have no actual need for rooting and have never done that before, definitely safer to wait.