Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

  • realharo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Oculus. No way they would have otherwise had the money to make cheap standalone VR headsets like the Quest.

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        1 year ago

        Everything that has a store requires an account.

        • Steam - you need Steam account (also applies to Valve Index then)
        • iPhone - you need Apple account
        • Android phones - you need Google account
        • Oculus before - you needed an Oculus account

        The short time during which they required a Facebook account (i.e. an account linked to an unrelated service) was a fuck-up, but they have since reversed that decision. Now it’s just a separate standalone VR-related account.

        If anything, that is still better than the current Google/Apple situation with their accounts, which link together a bunch of unrelated services (photos, email, payments, storage sync, etc.) in an inseparable way.

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          1 year ago

          You don’t actually need an account to use an android phone with Aurora and fdroid And the index is just a headset, you don’t need steam to use it, valve doesn’t do walled gardens AFAIK