Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30

• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Hopefully, someone is sitting on a root workaround, and will reveal it once the updates stop.

  I’d buy a second hand one, if there was a way to use it without any meta involvement.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m expecting it, tbh

    I have a quest 2 and it’s actually a FANTASTIC headset, but I want to rip the meta shit out

    Not even because they’re a gross company (tho they are), I use a burner account with burner info and play in a gray room through a router specifically for my VR (almost completely lag free wireless this way, it works) but because I HATE that they made you have arms in an update and didn’t let us turn it off. They’re horrid

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I have a quest 2 and it’s actually a FANTASTIC headset

      Yes, because of John Fifth-Dimensional-Being-Pretending-to-be-a-Human Carmack.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        "oh, do you need me to just invent the fundamental technology for a massive sector of computing again? Sure, no problem, have it to ya by Friday"

        • John Carmack on multiple occasions

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      So they made you join the army?

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I wish they gave me a firearm

        But no, it’s a garbage implementation of giving you a digital avatar that displays arms in a first person view by guessing where they must be based off of controller position.

        It clearly doesn’t use the cams on the device cuz they’re bad

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      they made you have arms in an update and didn’t let us turn it off

      What? I’m guessing they made it so your arms show up in-game somehow???

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Not in games, but in the main hub menu of the device

        It tries to guess where your arms are based on controller position

        It’s c r a p

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