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[โ€“] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Quest is good and cheap. You can Sideload apps, run Steam VR and never touch a Meta app.

Doing this actually hurts Meta because it's assumed Meta underprices the hardware and makes up the difference in software like other consoles. It's win-win.

[โ€“] balgruuf@nord.pub 8 points 2 days ago

But you have to touch and be reliant on a meta os.