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Meta Reportedly Cutting About 1,500 VR and AR Jobs Amid Renewed Push to Become an AI Juggernaut (gizmodo.com)
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AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a "strategic advantage," Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

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[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The index is also not as good as the quest 2. Although if a valve index full kit were selling for 233.3 dollars (1/3 of 700) that is honestly worth it solely for the basestations to use with full body tracking. Basestations tend to sell for 300 usd a pair.

I'm not seeing any index full kits selling for that cheap though, at a minimum 550 for the full kit.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The index controllers come with integrated finger tracking, the headset displays are higher resolution with better FOV and maximum refresh rates.

Also they're not meta, which counts for a lot.

The only way I see a Q2 being superior to the index is wireless functionality (which I've heard is a situational blessing and curse), and standalone play, which is useless once you need a dedicated PC for any steamVR software (as the games are ran on the PC).

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

The valve index has lower ppd though (quest 2 has 17 ppd, index has 14 ppd). The index controllers aren't as precise at gripping things and they don't work with sweat on them.

Standalone headsets have better support on linux also than the index.

I myself bought an index headset to switch from quest 2 and its not a better headset. At most its a side grade that costs way more, and wouldn't have been worth it other than getting base stations for the base station ecosystem.