Yes, and discontinued in 2018. They count from when the last people could buy it, not the first.

Google has had their fair share of hardware failures too...Stadia comes to mind.

The ONLY successful hardware MS has EVER produced has been their mice and keyboards. Everything else has been a dumpster fire. UltimateTV (Tivo Competitor), Kin, Windows Phone, Zune...EVERY last time they get into hardware, they fail. And yes, I am including Xbox here. (RRoD anyone?)

Of course, their software isn't so great these days either...companies like MS continue because of inertia, NOT because they are making the best stuff out there....and because when anyone comes close to making a product that is actually competitive, they just crush them into oblivion, or buy them out.

But they are already doing that

The 6S was released in 2015.

Thank you for confirming I'm not alone in finding zero motivation to use my OG Quest headset.

My OG Quest does hand tracking perfectly fine.

The iPhone 6S was discontinued in 2018 and Apple just stopped new OS support for it this year (it can’t get iOS 16). That’s the most recently discontinued model under their new policy and…. is 5 years.

Their other devices tend to be supported longer since there really isn’t much reason for them to stop OS updates for a laptop or streaming box, etc. But we were taking quickly evolving mobile devices here.

Anyway - they entire modern VR industry is less than 8 years old. IMO until it’s more mature 5 years isn’t bad.

You're talking about the vast minority of the population that Meta needs to adopt this technology to make it in any way lucrative and sustainable. So yes, "we" as a society are not jumping into the Metaverse any time soon.

It wont be as good as a normal tv but if you want a large screen you can make a really good set up now for much less money than a huge oled tv

Yah disagree, but your welcome to your opinion

Ive done the star wars stuff, ping pong, golf+, racing sim and yes beat saber and some one off experience things. None of it comes close to getting me off my ps5

I bought Quest 2 last week. I have never regretted such a pricy buy ever in my life more than this on. Lack of games, lack of variety, even there horizon is just sooooo bad. It's just kids gaggling around. Very little creativity on top of it. I would sacrifice my one time travel use to revoke this purchase.

Skyrim just like any other PC game you definitely need to mod for it to feel like an actual VR experience. If you play half life Alex, it will ruin all other VR experiences for you. There is a game called the grim Lord that is coming out and it will be a souls like experience. And there is a game called contractors on quest, two standalone and PC that will allow you to play halo call of duty and many other Mabs from the late 90s and early 2000s. And another shooter is called Pavlov. This will let you play call of duty zombies and some other game modes as well. Also, it has all of the maps from 007 goldeneye which is pretty cool. All these maps are modded and re-created by the community.

Yeah I have a perfectly functional Oculus Go which I want to use to watch movies and Netflix on but can't operate the menu because there are no controllers available.

Probably, hopefully someone can jailbreak it into being just a PC headset. Unfortunately there aren't many good options that are wireless with inside out tracking and the quest hardware is so affordable and high end specs.

Yuuup.

Until they just kill it with an obligatory update for the pc software

Yep, I'd assume it uses the same fw delivery service as the q2.

iPhone 5 was released in 2012, a better comparison would be if they weren’t updating the iPhone 11.

Still one of the best headsets for tethering to a PC.

I have one too. It's still pretty good using Airlink (or a usb cable) to tether it to a PC for VR, but there isn't that much good VR content.

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The Quest 2 is pretty long in the tooth at this point too, so they're not really leaving Quest 1 owners with a good upgrade path.

My screen is ALR, it cost nearly $2500. The projector is still one of the best in contrast on the market under $10,000. I have a pitch black movie room.

The quality is great, it's still not close to OLED.

Apple has updated my products up to 9+ years before they’re totally unsupported by OS and software updates. 5 is such a low bar.

Quest 2 is a far superior product, it even has basic hand tracking

This is no different than Apple updating the iPhone 5