Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 months agoHopefully, 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.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Yes, because of John Fifth-Dimensional-Being-Pretending-to-be-a-Human Carmack.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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"
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
So they made you join the army?
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
What? I’m guessing they made it so your arms show up in-game somehow???
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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