That’s an extremely poor choice of sponsorship for that particular video, made me laugh quite a bit

Not sure if a Chinese company is the answer. Also they seem to be less interested in being a Quest competitor going forward and didn’t even fulfill their single promised exclusive title. There’s a decent amount of games though and it’s not Meta, so that much is true.

It seems much better now, thank you :) Is it still on 0.19 or did it get reverted back to 0.18?

I‘m already using voyager. I’m pretty sure it’s not the app that’s slow, but the Lemmy server. Doesn’t matter which app you’re using.

Probably was too soon to upgrade then, compared to Lemmy.world, which is still on 0.18, it’s day and night.

I think you got the target audience wrong, this isn’t a PC gaming headset. It doesn’t even have or support VR controllers.

This is more of an iPad replacement, second screen, productivity and consumption device. And it’s going to be the first one that actually has a big library of regular apps from the very start. Arguably the bigger market, not just for gamers.

It’s expensive (and too expensive for me), but if you put it next to a MacBook Pro with a few upgrades it’s the same price and those get bought without thinking about it.

To become more mainstream it definitely has to be cheaper, but there’s something bothering me about how all the other prices are acceptable.

MacBooks are more of a working device and the upgrades are optional, the starting price is cheaper, I know. Still, these price points aren’t unheard of for Apple.

That bug has been there since the release of custom icons and it’s never been fixed by Apple. Every app has that issue, it’s annoying.

You can upload it to https://imgur.com/ and share the link

I was speaking in a general sense, but I’m glad you figured it all out.

I don’t see how a purely magnetic watch band attachment could work for a watch, but I guess we’ll see. Would definitely be a shame to loose band compatibility.

Iron rebellion is definitely a game to keep an eye on. It’s still in early access, but getting closer to release and sitting in that cockpit feels amazing. Hopefully it won’t be too long until it shows up on the main store. It’s already by far the best VR mech game currently out there.

Yeah the graphics look a bit muddy occasionally but they said a Quest 3 improvement is coming. And I agree with the annoyances you mentioned. The menu seems to be made for a headset where you never turn irl, the notifications only appear on one side and so does the menu. And not being able to jump down e.g. a wall you just climbed is equally annoying. There definitely is a lot of stuff in the game though.

You can pair a mouse and a keyboard afaik, but there’s nothing else there. Its not a "general purpose" platform.

It feels noteworthy, but I don’t think anyone will care about this. Who‘s going to use the Quest as a productivity device, natively? And why?

On Quest at least you can return it up to 2h of playtime which should be enough to get a feel for the game

Of course cooperate social media isn’t the only harmful social media, if anything it might be the most civil one for its scale, simply because they’re trying to sell ads next to the content so the content can’t be complete garbage. They also have a bunch of other incentives that ultimately make it a shit experience for everyone, but there is an incentive to moderate.

Something to remember is that it isn’t the company producing the harmful content. It’s people.

While that’s true, I’m not sure how many people are using Mastodon that way and if that’s actually the main concern. In the end it still is meant to be a public platform. Not on the same level of "private messages and photos" where most people would probably be very concerned.

I occasionally feel the same way. However, I don’t think it’s a big issue to select the community first and then post to it instead of creating a post and selecting the community after. It’s the same amount of steps either way.

Look at the fediverse’s monthly active users, it’s declining. There’s a pretty solid wall of friction when trying to participate and the vast majority of people won’t ever be a part of it in its current state. There’s no upward tend here and I doubt that it’s ever going to be a real danger for meta.

I think Bluesky is even smaller. It probably could’ve been a Twitter competitor before threads came around.

100% agree, I think most reactions here are blown way out of proportion even though I can relate to the general "fuck meta" attitude.

What communities are you talking about specifically? I tried but I haven’t yet found a list of those that defederated preemptively. I can’t imagine it’s the majority of instances/users.

I have the same question. Lemmy and Mastodon are both public and as of yet, no one was able to tell me what "privacy" actually looks like for data in that context. Other than the fact that Meta will destroy it. It’s public, anyone can access it already.

I‘m so looking forward to this, hopefully won’t be too long until it shows up on PSVR.

I thought long and hard about my top 10 so far and it’s actually quite difficult, there’s more games I’d like to add to it. This year‘s been really great overall.

Apart from Echo VR, whose main action was to get killed in August. It would’ve been my absolute number 1 for basically every year, I used to play competently and made a lot of good friends there.

But apart from that, this is the list I came up with:

1. Dungeons of eternity (Quest)
2. Resident evil 8 (PSVR)
3. Synapse (PSVR)
4. Gran Tourismo 7 (PSVR)
5. Breachers (Quest)
6. VR Skater (PSVR)
7. Arizona Sunshine 2 (Quest)
8. Assassins creed nexus (Quest)
9. Ancient dungeon multiplayer (Quest)
10. Puzzling Places multiplayer (Quest)

I’ve bought every walkabout map on day one except for meow wolf, but it seems like I’ll have to take a look after all

I’ve only played for about an hour so far. The haptics and intro sequences have been really nice, combat feels great (the little that I had). Definitely promising and reception in general seems to be very positive.

Active users went down, though. I don’t think mastodon is a big competitor for Meta, Twitter and TikTok are.

I thought it was already possible, but I guess I’m thinking of blocking communities

It sounds a bit sarcastic, not sure if you mean it that way. One question: what privacy are you talking about with services that are meant to be entirely open? App analytics?

I think the reason why meta wants to federate is this:

• it helps with anticompetitive arguments, because it’s "open" and not controlled by meta alone
• some will refuse to use anything from meta, and threads users being able to communicate with them adds value
• it won’t hurt meta, because the majority will be using their app anyways
• it helps their image

I don’t think they’re doing it to "get more data" or to "take over the fediverse". There’s nothing worth taking over for them currently and since most people don’t care about the fediverse I don’t see it growing much either. Although I’d certainly like it if that were the case.

They can probably get the data already, it’s all openly available. Federating it’s basically all upside and no downside for them, but it’s not exactly the biggest priority to implement it, it‘s going to take some time.

I’m not saying it might not have a negative effect or that they care a lot for what’s currently there. They’ll certainly want to monetize threads sooner or later.

it’s Meta, so who cares?

Most people don’t care if it’s Meta, or what Meta even is. Also, Meta has by far the most VR users, and the Quest 3 is already one of the most used Steam headsets. The Quest line is the most relevant VR hardware out there.

the Zuckersphere is a horrible place

Probably in the future it will be, but not right now. Metas product lifecycle always starts out with being good to their users, which is where we are currently. The enshittification usually comes later. For some aspects (content and standalone) it’s basically the only option. If and when we reach that point there will hopefully be alternatives.

it’s still Vive or nothing

I’d love to have a Steam standalone headset, but it doesn’t exist (yet?) and the Vive is truly outdated by now. Not even bigscreen beyond or the index?

Sry, I‘m still not following. I don’t understand your argument, are you saying they want to federate to gain additional users to grab data from? Because I don’t think that’s going to be a significant amount of people.

Most people don’t care about what makes the fediverse desirable to its current users, all it does is add friction to them and therefore I don’t see it growing much either.

I think the reason why meta wants to federate is this:

• it helps with anticompetitive arguments, because it’s "open" and not controlled by meta alone
• some will refuse to use anything from meta, and threads users being able to communicate with them adds value
• it won’t hurt meta, because the majority will be using their app anyways
• it helps their image

I don’t think they’re doing it to "get more data" or to "take over the fediverse". There’s nothing worth taking over and they can probably get the data anyways, it’s all openly available. So it’s basically all upside and no downside for them.

Maybe I’m not getting something here, but neither Mastodon nor Lemmy are private, you can find everything open for everyone already, so how would federation change something there? Federation doesn’t mean everyone would use their app, so they wouldn’t gain any app usage analytics.

Also I don’t get how your metaphor make sense. The amount of fediverse users is a rounding error next to threads, instagram, WhatsApp and facebook. So there’s not a "lot a tiny things that can add up", only a small amount of tiny things which don’t really add up to anything.

Well, I don’t think I’m the one who has to get over something, but sure. Thanks for the kind words.

Firstly, you can choose an instance that doesn’t federate with them. Everyone can choose for themselves. And second you didn’t read it probably, they’re testing it and there a handful of accounts that have activity pub enabled. That certainly doesn’t make them the biggest presence.

There’s a large number of people here that have a deeply emotional hatred for anything related to Meta and I get that. But these dull comments don’t make for a fun discussion. They don’t add anything. They won’t affect anything. They’re just boring comments wasting everyone’s time.

It’s great that everyone is able to choose for themselves

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