That’s an extremely poor choice of sponsorship for that particular video, made me laugh quite a bit

Not sure if a Chinese company is the answer. Also they seem to be less interested in being a Quest competitor going forward and didn’t even fulfill their single promised exclusive title. There’s a decent amount of games though and it’s not Meta, so that much is true.

Iron rebellion is definitely a game to keep an eye on. It’s still in early access, but getting closer to release and sitting in that cockpit feels amazing. Hopefully it won’t be too long until it shows up on the main store. It’s already by far the best VR mech game currently out there.

Yeah the graphics look a bit muddy occasionally but they said a Quest 3 improvement is coming. And I agree with the annoyances you mentioned. The menu seems to be made for a headset where you never turn irl, the notifications only appear on one side and so does the menu. And not being able to jump down e.g. a wall you just climbed is equally annoying. There definitely is a lot of stuff in the game though.

You can pair a mouse and a keyboard afaik, but there’s nothing else there. Its not a “general purpose” platform.

Not everything has to be about privacy or Meta. The Quest isn’t a productivity platform and it’s most likely going to be a terrible experience if you were trying to use this as a PC replacement. There’s literally nothing else you can do natively on it. And even these “apps”, they’re just a browser window. It doesn’t work offline. You can’t have a notes app next to it. I don’t see this going anywhere at all.

It feels noteworthy, but I don’t think anyone will care about this. Who‘s going to use the Quest as a productivity device, natively? And why?

On Quest at least you can return it up to 2h of playtime which should be enough to get a feel for the game

Of course cooperate social media isn’t the only harmful social media, if anything it might be the most civil one for its scale, simply because they’re trying to sell ads next to the content so the content can’t be complete garbage. They also have a bunch of other incentives that ultimately make it a shit experience for everyone, but there is an incentive to moderate.

Something to remember is that it isn’t the company producing the harmful content. It’s people.

While that’s true, I’m not sure how many people are using Mastodon that way and if that’s actually the main concern. In the end it still is meant to be a public platform. Not on the same level of “private messages and photos” where most people would probably be very concerned.

Look at the fediverse’s monthly active users, it’s declining. There’s a pretty solid wall of friction when trying to participate and the vast majority of people won’t ever be a part of it in its current state. There’s no upward tend here and I doubt that it’s ever going to be a real danger for meta.

I think Bluesky is even smaller. It probably could’ve been a Twitter competitor before threads came around.

100% agree, I think most reactions here are blown way out of proportion even though I can relate to the general “fuck meta” attitude.

What communities are you talking about specifically? I tried but I haven’t yet found a list of those that defederated preemptively. I can’t imagine it’s the majority of instances/users.

I have the same question. Lemmy and Mastodon are both public and as of yet, no one was able to tell me what “privacy” actually looks like for data in that context. Other than the fact that Meta will destroy it. It’s public, anyone can access it already.

I‘m so looking forward to this, hopefully won’t be too long until it shows up on PSVR.

I thought long and hard about my top 10 so far and it’s actually quite difficult, there’s more games I’d like to add to it. This year‘s been really great overall.

Apart from Echo VR, whose main action was to get killed in August. It would’ve been my absolute number 1 for basically every year, I used to play competently and made a lot of good friends there.

But apart from that, this is the list I came up with:

1. Dungeons of eternity (Quest)
2. Resident evil 8 (PSVR)
3. Synapse (PSVR)
4. Gran Tourismo 7 (PSVR)
5. Breachers (Quest)
6. VR Skater (PSVR)
7. Arizona Sunshine 2 (Quest)
8. Assassins creed nexus (Quest)
9. Ancient dungeon multiplayer (Quest)
10. Puzzling Places multiplayer (Quest)

I’ve bought every walkabout map on day one except for meow wolf, but it seems like I’ll have to take a look after all

I’ve only played for about an hour so far. The haptics and intro sequences have been really nice, combat feels great (the little that I had). Definitely promising and reception in general seems to be very positive.

Active users went down, though. I don’t think mastodon is a big competitor for Meta, Twitter and TikTok are.