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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 106 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

Gee. Remember the last time Meta lied about this sort of thing? I remember.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/393371/oculus-vr-headsets-will-soon-require-a-facebook-account.html

When Meta bought Oculus, I boxed up my OG Rift and threw it in the basement, and bought a Reverb G2. I'd rather be tied to a dead platform (WMR) than Meta. Fuck Meta, and fuck Facebook. Don't buy their products, don't give them your data, don't give them a dime.

[–] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the Reverb G2 will be junk when WMR is removed from Windows.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I'd doubt it. There are already open source projects to make it (and other similar headsets) work without WMR including on Linux, and it's likely you'll be able to shoehorn and install the final release of WMR back into Windows manually just like you can with all kinds of other legacy Microsoft stuff.

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