Meta to increase Quest 2 pricing by 100 bucks

[dburne]

Starting in August.

 

https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-quest-2-pricing-changes/?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=1-aw-barkerus-202207%2F26&utm_term=1

 

Hmm Facebook Login requirement goes away whilst Horizon World login will become a requirement. Nothing to see here.

 

Also of interest - good ole Zuck getting a little snippy these days it seems:
https://sfist.com/2022/07/26/zuckerberg-reportedly-getting-increasingly-snippy-and-intense-in-pivot-to-metaverse-amidst-declining-profits/

Edited July 27, 2022 by dburne

[Dallas88B]

Sadly, there are no end of folk that are more than happy to give Zuck any and all personal information his empire wants.

I cannot see how this ends well.

Edited July 27, 2022 by Dallas88B

[dburne]

2 hours ago, Dallas88B said:

Sadly, there are no end of folk that are more than happy to give Zuck any and all personal information his empire wants.

I cannot see how this ends well.

 

Yeah same here , hard to see how it ends well but maybe it will. I hope for the sake of VR growth it does, but I want no part of Meta. I am still unclear on what they hope to achieve with Quest Pro aka Cambria? Convince all the Quest 2 users that are happy with it they need to spend several hundred more for a Quest Pro? Not sure that will fly too well. Especially as a Quest 3 is already planned.

Edited July 27, 2022 by dburne

[Skelthos]

They are not really marketing the Cambria/Quest Pro at the gaming/home market. They have this idea in their head that they can convince businesses that having a virtual office is the future, and that Cambria can help them achieve this. They have mentioned several times that it is more aimed at the business market and they are working with developers on productivity apps etc. 

 

You will get a few fans of the Quest 2 that have to have the latest and greatest, but most Quest users will likely wait for the Quest 3 next year.  Overall I would be surprised it was a big seller. 

[Goffik]

5 hours ago, dburne said:

Starting in August.

 

All the more reason not to buy one then.

 

1 hour ago, dburne said:

I hope for the sake of VR growth it does

 

Would you rather have growth or advancement? Sure the Quest HMDs are cheap and allow more people to buy HMDs. However, they are also holding VR gaming back tremendously by being underpowered, standalone sets that can't run anything other than mobile phone quality games. Any developer that makes a VR game that requires a PC's computing power is shooting themselves in the foot in terms of profits, because many Quest users won't even look at it... either because their PC is too rubbish for VR with a wired connection, or because they don't want to be shackled to it.

 

Part of me wishes Meta would just bugger off and leave the VR market alone.

Edited July 27, 2022 by Goffik