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[Link] Being a Facebook Metaverse ‘Community Guide’ Seems Like a Nightmare Job
Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com
Imagine you had to moderate a Facebook comment thread, only each commenter was able to come up to you, wave their hands in your face, and scream whatever they want. Peanutbutter sighs loudly and approaches the group of kids.
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[Link] Meta's Oculus Quest rebrand is off to a disastrous start
Read: 6/2/2022 www.creativebloq.com
It's going to take us a while to get used to calling Facebook Meta, but spare a thought for Oculus Quest users, who are also being asked to call their VR headset by a new name.
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[Link] Zuckerberg: Meta Will Continue To Subsidize Headset Cost
Read: 8/11/2021 uploadvr.com
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave insight into the company’s current and future hardware business model at Connect 2021, indicating that the plan is to continue to sell devices at cost or with subsidies to help build a larger ecosystem with as many users as possible.
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[Link] Opinion: Dear Facebook: No one cares about Oculus; give us Instagram revenue!
Read: 26/10/2021 www.marketwatch.com
Facebook goes the Alphabet route — giving investors numbers on a young business instead of mature operations, while renaming the company — but can we just skip to the part where the SEC makes Zuckerberg tell investors what they actually want to know? Facebook Inc.
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[Link] Developer Turns Half-Life: Alyx’s City 17 Into Quest Home Environment
Read: 21/8/2021 uploadvr.com
We probably won’t see a native version of Half-Life: Alyx on Oculus Quest headsets anytime soon, but one developer did bring the game’s iconic setting to the platform.
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[Link] Facebook users struggling to reactivate hacked accounts are buying $300 Oculus VR headsets just so they can talk to a customer service rep
Read: 8/8/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au
Facebook users struggling to get back into their hacked accounts are buying the company’s $US300 ($AU405) VR headset and returning them unopened just so they can reactivate their profiles, according to an NPR report.
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[Link] Editorial: Oculus Quest 2 Is Becoming A VR Personal Computer
Read: 7/8/2021 uploadvr.com
Earlier this week I installed Blizzard’s Hearthstone, Apple Music, and the flatscreen Android version of Netflix on Oculus Quest 2. To my left, I played a game of Hearthstone with hand tracking while on the right I watched Terminator 2 downloaded locally from Netflix.
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[Link] Oculus’ Passthrough API will enable experiences that mix VR and the real world
Read: 28/7/2021 www.theverge.com
Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video from the Quest 2’s sensors into their games and applications, creating a mixed reality experience.
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[Link] Facebook Brings Subscription Support To Quest
Read: 17/4/2021 uploadvr.com
In a new Oculus blog post, Facebook announced official support for subscriptions services on the Oculus Quest platform. Rec Room, VZFit and more will be the first apps to adopt the new model.