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Meta says it funded over 100 VR & mixed reality titles that shipped in 2024, as well as over 200 currently in "active production". [...] These figures were revealed today at GDC 2025 by Meta's Director of Games Chris Pruett, during a talk where he also claimed that opening the store and heavily pushing Horizon Worlds did not meaningfully affect store spending, and revealed that monthly headset usage increased 30% in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

At least it's something tangibly useful. Unlike "AI". I'm for it.

Diversify from selling personal data

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Unfortunately the VR is just another avenue for them to get data to sell

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Until Valve releases the Deckard, or whatever their next iteration VR hardware will be named, they'll have to pry my Valve Index from my cold dead hands. No way in hell would i ever own anything from Meta/FB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

No way in hell would i ever own anything from Meta/FB.

Well said.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I can't wait to get out :)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Like Musk, Zuckerberg is just trying to create a world where people actually like him.

Also like Musk, he will fail.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

Musk is helping Meta through "at least Zuckerberg isn't Musk" aura.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The Quest 2 and 3 finally are a properly viable platform that millions of people use, but it still feels like Meta doesn't want it to be a "Microsoft's Xbox" sort of situation, they still want it to be a "Google's Android" situation instead. It's been an utterly bizarre time watching all of this occur in real time as someone that bought her first headset in 2017; their priorities have always been completely misaligned with the achievements they're actually making.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I have the Quest 2 before the rebrand. It was great, loved playing bowling with it, but they really do need move beyond being Daydream on steroids.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And I still won't buy your garbage data collection headset. I saw the day coming well in advance when they eventually forced the login with a meta/Facebook account. I'm not interested in that, and even though they removed it their hand was played. I will not invest in that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone has a FB account whether they created it or not, and I'm sure Meta found a way to link their VR headsets to your account even if it's not obvious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

There are so many people using WhatsApp that have to share their contacts with them to get a remotely usable UI that I’m certain that you’re correct.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Meta sucks on the whole but I love my Quest 3.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

I’d probably own one if it wasn’t zuccs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think there's a total stock market index fund that only omits Meta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That is mostly my experience. I found a few or that meta is not ine of the top investments. Fidelity has a few. When I get home I may post them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

When I get home I may post them.

I would appreciate that.