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Survey says half of developers consider VR market on decline or stagnation (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

its a standalone device that functionally is like buying a phone with a Snapdragon 865(for older quest 2 models). relative to what you're paying for. It's actually not that expensive in the grand scheme of other gaming devices, as its on par/cheaper than basiaclly all other mainstream gaming devices, and on the low end in terms of smartphone pricing.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Only if you're willing to do business with Facebook.

Paying you per hour to use Facebook hardware would be overpriced.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

which is the condition on whether a user wants to make it cheap, else you have to go theough the trouble of sideloading the requied stuff to turn the device into a mixedvr/piracy headset by cutting off the meta related services.

else the "cheap" option would be to go use older windows mixed VR headsets, or cheaper chinese options(e.g Pico Vr headsets), both having their own cost of using it, very similar to what you sign into for users who buy a phone, or a console.