I’m very interested to see what Samsung comes out with. The Odyssey was a great device and they have superb hardware expertise in all kinds of ways. In some ways they are better positioned than Apple (for example, in-house display manufacturing etc).

Google - I have no idea about, it’s been so long since I saw them deliver something new and convincing on the software front.

sorry … they made the change after I posted it.

The explanation from iVRy:

It’s running HDMI to a frame-grabber, which is then compressing the image and sending it over USB to a Linux box which is then decompressing and displaying it. There is zero value looking at performance at this point. No, a released driver wouldn’t work like this at all.

And of course, it needs external trackers, controllers etc.

EDIT: ok that’s more about how they recorded the footage than the implementation. I don’t know how it works!

There are quite a few games that I play for a month or two and then it’s done and dusted. Any time something I actually want to buy like that is in the subscription, I might as well just get the subscription and I have it for $8 instead of the normal price. If you treat it like that, this seems like a good deal. But I don’t know how often they are going to list games that (a) I want enough to buy it but (b) didn’t buy it already.

It underscores how bad Meta’s marketing has really been I think. They try but I actually find their ads for Quest off putting. They could learn from Apple and pitch to a broader market with some pretty basic things (viewing movies etc) and easily present a very compelling narrative I think (for example: with 1 Vision Pro you can watch a movie all by yourself and be lonely but for the same price you can buy 7 Quest 3’s and have your whole family or friends there with you - this shouldn’t be a hard sell!).