I’m gonna delete the account after selling my Quest 2 for the Steam Frame

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      Yup, i paid my $1,000 for my index and it was the best purchase I ever made love that thing. I’m definitely getting a steam frame as well not because I don’t love my index anymore but it would be nice to have something that is a little more flexible with the space.

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      Well there is that but there’s also that they’re just trying to make the Metaverse happen, so to speak. Get as many people as possible onboarded and using the product and making it mainstream before recouping losses. Fortunately that’s a stupid idea with no practical value and it seems they’re starting to realize that so they’ve reallocated the budget to the next stupid thing they’re trying to make happen with no practical value.

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        It’s more than that. It’s a hostile business move to corner the market and kill off other brands, they absolutely had the money to accomplish this. The brand image? They failed that speech check. Beyond that, there simply isn’t enough interest in VR to make a killing off of a monopoly even if they had one.

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          It’s a hostile business move to corner the market and kill off other brands

          Huh? How do you figure that?

          The brand image? They failed that speech check.

          What?

          there simply isn’t enough interest in VR to make a killing off of a monopoly even if they had one

          You and I know that but it didn’t stop Fuckerberg from sinking tens of billions of dollars into it.

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            A) sell at a loss to take smaller players off the board because they can’t compete at those prices. Because they can’t afford to sell at a loss.

            B) speech check is an RPG saying. Basically they’re trying to fool the user but the users didn’t fall for it.

            C) correct. He made a mistake thinking he could get people to use VR on a level like WALL-E or ready player one. He tried to make one dystopia happen and failed because we’re not quite at the level of desperation that we need or can acceptably make VR vacations a viable product.