VR?

My buddy keeps trying to convince me to buy one of these Rift S headsets to play VR games, seems like a gimmick to me

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Vr is only worth the money if you manage to find games that you keep coming back to. Get a quest 2 with some cables for link play off amazon so you got that return policy to fall back on

Alternatively order a quest 2 off amazon, have the guy drop off the package and not see you, and tell amazon you never got the shit so that way you get your money back. I did this with an nvme back in july

I called 911 and told them about this post. Enjoy your fraud conviction.

Good luck kiddo, I'm on NordVPN posting from TOR

>Facebook
That's all you need to know.
Though the Rift S is about the worst headset of the bunch as Facebook basically abandoned it the second they realized that the Quest's link cable was a viable option.

imagine giving Zuckerberg cameras inside your house

t. uses Windows

If you have a decent pc it's the equivalent of buying a console, except a thousand times better because all the exclusives actually have a reason for being exclusive and you'll get infinitely more joy out of it than the latest gimped pc that console manufacturers are shilling. That said choosing a headset is a pain in the ass because your choices are:
>Index
Still the best on the market and still the most expensive
>used Vive
Has some upgradibility and is pretty cheap, but you're buying used and while the tracking is good the headset is low res and heavy.
>any faceberg shit
Great hardware but even the older stuff is getting an update that requires you to have a facebook account and even if you're fine with that you need to actively use said acccount or else they ban it (and delete your oculus store purchases on top of that). If the quest 2 gets jailbroken it'll be the best bang for your buck by a fucking mile.
>WMR
There's a bunch on offer so it's hard to choose and they all have worse tracking than the alternatives. Still they're probably the best "cheap" headsets right now.
>PSVR
Lol no
Honestly right now I think you're better off just waiting. Either put pennies in an index jar, wait for the quest 2 to get rooted or for some new headset to come out.

the EULA even says Facebook stores images of your play space on their server, I wonder what things Zuckerberg has seen?

Rift S is outdated. Get a quest 2 if you're poor or a Reverb G2 if you are not.

I just looked at the privacy policy and it says they collect the size of your play space based on the the area you defined when setting up guardian. Nothing about images.

If you're not poor get a fucking index, g2 has dogshit tracking.

>just get the headset with shitty controllers and lenses lol and oh yeah forget about doing wireless VD with it
Yeah if you're going to go big go Index, not HP's garbage.

Rift S is good value if you can get one for under $300 considering you need the headstrap + link cable for quest 2 to be equal to the rift s and it will cost you over $400.

Can't wait for DecaGear™!

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>buying the link cable
>buying the strap
Literally just buy third party stuff which is just as good AND cheaper. And you get the bonus of wireless play with a good router. I have a Rift S and even I wouldn't recommend it over the Quest 2, although I wouldn't replace my Rift S yet since it's working perfectly fine for me.

quest 2 is best value

They also publicly said that they wouldn't ever require Facebook accounts to use the headsets, right to the guy who they were buying Oculus from even.
Do not trust anything that company says. They will change their policies and brick your device if you do not comply.

>someone looked at that footage and thought it was fine
Big red flag. Not just for the company but for the people who shill it since it appears they're fucked in the head as well.

It's baffling to me that for all the real and valid things to give Oculus/Facebook shit for, people still feel the need to make up stuff. Someone on Zig Forums once insisted to me that it was impossible to play games on a Rift CV1 without an active Internet connection - right after I had played some Beat Saber offline.

Pavlov and beatsaber are both great games that keep my VR headset in use.


Especially Pavlov, I have over 250 hours on it, which is a lot for a VR game

Palmer Luckey said that, like 6 years ago. Not Facebook

Facebook told Palmer to his face, who relayed it to everyone else, and my memory is fuzzy but Facebook may or may not have said it / confirmed it directly through twitter or some bullshit as well at the time. And this was 6 years ago doesn't change the fact they lied.

"They will change their policies" is distinctly different from "the EULA even says"

Sorry, didn't realize you were in the board meeting right after acquisition

take your meds schizo.
Was there ever a precedent where Facebook changed the rules, then banned peoples Instagram and Whatsapp accounts for not "complying"? If not, you're delusional and talking out of your ass

Quest 2 or Rift S? Not sure which to get.

Quest 2, easy.
The only area where Rift S wins is comfort - everywhere else Quest is either better or equal.

>Ok I guess I was wrong but now let me bring up this other argument because obviously it's better than the last one...
You're not doing it right. The real argument which I will make is that you just cannot trust any software or hardware. It doesn't matter who it's by, it can be compromised even by third parties. That's why some level of being vigilant about how you interact with technology is important, but at this point in society most people don't care, and you're a drop in the water. It matters more for security, not privacy, and if there's anything you don't want being compromised, like your personal information, you should be taking steps to protect that information whether you get an Oculus headset, an Index, or anything else that has cameras that could potentially view that sensitive information. And with any software on your PC.
Perfect security isn't practically achievable, but the least you can do, which protects you a lot better than having no protection at all, is to at least de-botnet W10 as much as possible (people make easy to use programs for this, look it up), use more privacy respecting browsers with privacy related extensions (again another pretty easy installation process by now in 2020), and then if you want, use your firewall which is actually pretty easy to use too, to block programs from communicating on the internet when you don't want. Even better is Pihole if you're willing to put in some more effort.

Thanks.