Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected | TechCrunch
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    • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I at least was able to recoup a few bucks when they forced fb accounts. A friend was interested in buying a headset anyway so we worked out a price for my account and just migrated it to his fb instead of mine. Bought an index and it’s pretty tight.

    • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
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      9 months ago

      i felt the same way but i was gifted one recently… it’s still pretty awesome, and it runs android so you can put it in developer mode and sideload whatever you want…

      i expected it to be locked down like apple, but no it’s pretty sick.

      see also: original NES Legend of Zelda ported to oculus…

      • Russ@bitforged.spaceEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I’m in a similar boat, however I was very disappointed to see that in order to enable developer mode you have to make/sign in with a Meta account and “register” as a developer with them.

        • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
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          9 months ago

          i didn’t like that either… but it was quick and free…
          had to take a shower afterwards though…

        • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
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          9 months ago

          not really their blessing, but yeah you have to create a developer account, agree to be part of a human centipede, and then you’re in…

          there’s even an alternative side loading store call side quest that streamlines it and has a ton of stuff to download…