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by makeitdouble 870 days ago
> I’m confused by the enthusiasm. Have we all forgot that we’ve been through this “virtual desktop” cycle already?

A lot of people wouldn't touch a Meta headset with a ten foot pole, especially with all the account shitshow that happened when the Occulus brand got sunsetted. Then Vive headsets required a lot more investment and you had to be already convinced to dive into it. Not mentionning that macs and the all Apple ecosystem didn't have enough GPU power to deal with VR so anyone knee deep in there wouldn't touch VR.

I'm kinda glad that side of the market gets into VR, and even if we see a lot of tired ideas in a "eternal September" style, we might get new insights and nice findings as well along the way.

I'd still be worried about how much Apple will allow for users to tweak that experience. I don't see a third party window manager being ever allowed for instance