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Posted June 25, 2021
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/06/facebook-begins-tying-social-media-use-to-ads-served-inside-its-vr-ecosystem/
Posted June 25, 2021
It sounds like something from a Cyberpunk dystopia, unskippable ads beamed directly into your brain. Good thing I don't like a shit about VR because it's a dumb fad.
Posted June 25, 2021
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well it is a FB product , so expected
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Crosmando: It sounds like something from a Cyberpunk dystopia, unskippable ads beamed directly into your brain. Good thing I don't like a shit about VR because it's a dumb fad.
yeah, looks like just a gimmic you have fun for like 4-5 hours then go back to the good old monitor
Post edited June 25, 2021 by Orkhepaj
Posted June 25, 2021
This is like "They Live".
Posted June 25, 2021
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Orkhepaj: well it is a FB product , so expected
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Crosmando: It sounds like something from a Cyberpunk dystopia, unskippable ads beamed directly into your brain. Good thing I don't like a shit about VR because it's a dumb fad.
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Orkhepaj: yeah, looks like just a gimmic you have fun for like 4-5 hours then go back to the good old monitor
That and having a monitor strapped to your face mere centimeters from your eyes cannot be good for your health/eyesight, I don't care what anyone says to the contrary.
Posted June 25, 2021
I'll be honest I'm not willing to read arstechnica's click-bait articles, but I seem to remember that at one point, you could buy the full-price Oculus, or an ad-supported Oculus for much cheaper entry-level price.

Is this a different thing? Is Facebook now forcing all Oculus units to show ads?
Posted June 25, 2021
Facebook, not sure how it could be worse than I think?
Posted June 25, 2021
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MadalinStroe: I'll be honest I'm not willing to read arstechnica's click-bait articles, but I seem to remember that at one point, you could buy the full-price Oculus, or an ad-supported Oculus for much cheaper entry-level price.

Is this a different thing? Is Facebook now forcing all Oculus units to show ads?
Facebook bought Oculus. They own it. You can't use it without a Facebook account. If you get banned for any reason, your Oculus is a brick.
Posted June 25, 2021
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MadalinStroe: I'll be honest I'm not willing to read arstechnica's click-bait articles, but I seem to remember that at one point, you could buy the full-price Oculus, or an ad-supported Oculus for much cheaper entry-level price.

Is this a different thing? Is Facebook now forcing all Oculus units to show ads?
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borisburke: Facebook bought Oculus. They own it. You can't use it without a Facebook account. If you get banned for any reason, your Oculus is a brick.
Yes, after Facebook bought Oculus, after they own it, after they introduced the requirement to link a Facebook account, after they introduced the disabling of the bought unit should the linked Facebook get banned.

They introduced two versions of the Oculus, one that was cheaper but ad-supported, and one that was full-priced but didn't have adds... for both you still had to link a Facebook account.

This is when I asked my question:
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MadalinStroe: Is this a different thing? Is Facebook now forcing all Oculus units to show ads?
Post edited June 25, 2021 by MadalinStroe
Posted June 25, 2021
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MadalinStroe: I'll be honest I'm not willing to read arstechnica's click-bait articles, but I seem to remember that at one point, you could buy the full-price Oculus, or an ad-supported Oculus for much cheaper entry-level price.

Is this a different thing? Is Facebook now forcing all Oculus units to show ads?
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borisburke: Facebook bought Oculus. They own it. You can't use it without a Facebook account. If you get banned for any reason, your Oculus is a brick.
Horrible
especially with their lame biased TOS and moderation
Posted June 25, 2021
It would have to set the user on fire to be worse than I think.
Posted June 25, 2021
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Breja: It would have to set the user on fire to be worse than I think.
No, that would improve it, blessed relief and all that.
The good news is that all profits go directly to zuckerburg without passing any tax authority or supporting any community they such dry.
Posted June 25, 2021
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Breja: It would have to set the user on fire to be worse than I think.
Killing off its host? Nah not likely! What about injecting FaceBorg nanoprobes?
Post edited June 25, 2021 by teceem
Posted June 25, 2021
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Breja: It would have to set the user on fire to be worse than I think.
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nightcraw1er.488: No, that would improve it, blessed relief and all that.
The good news is that all profits go directly to zuckerburg without passing any tax authority or supporting any community they such dry.
very good :P
wonder what he does with his money , probably nothing good for humanity
maybe a 100% nonstop surveillance system to help those who wants to control others
Posted June 26, 2021
I love VR so much, but fear that Facebook will manage to destroy the medium completely. Several games has been downgrade to run on Quest already, and most new stuff is targeted towards Quest. And now they have ads too. It's like we have returned to Google Cardboard. Oh well, at least I have a solid backlog of VR games!

Here's a comic strip I did last year, sumarizing the history of Oculus. Feel sorta smug predicting the ads, but it was kind of obvious, really.
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