LEP 30.8.

[yvannairie]

After trying for three hours to unsuccessfully get my Quest 2 to acknowledge that it's connected to a PC so that the apparently contextual "use USB connection for troubleshooting" popup would show up and let me add my current computer as a trusted source, I've reached a level of loathing for Meta that I didn't think was possible.

Like. Let's be 100% clear about something. Consumer VR is not going to be viable at least for the next five years, and it's not because the hardware is too unaffordable -- it's because Meta is a greedy control freak of a company that makes me spin around five times and then get on my knees to beg for permission to work on apps to sell on their platform, and will still arbitrarily refuse me because of the phase of the moon or something.

If this had happened while I was at work, needing to USB troubleshoot something on a Quest 2 and instead doing stupid little dances for the hardware provider and getting nowhere, I would just. Quit. I would quit. And probably throw my Quest through a window.

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[lonelyislet]

VR is also a strange pivot for what is supposed to be a social media company/Myspace sequel

And it (at least "Metaverse") only happened around the time Frances Haugen (who I don't trust entirely, who may be running censorship operation plays for Google) came out with her disclosures

[yvannairie]

It reminds me of "pivot to video" and an optimism over the future of Work From Home. Facebook is good at making money through making things safer and sanding down differences to make people feel like their own social sphere exists everywhere. That's why their platforms are such a powerful propaganda tool.

I'm just so mad that they basically just abandoned VR after it became apparent that real estate moguls who own all the office buildings wouldn't just let companies keep working from home forever because that doesn't make them money.