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Comment by MikeUt | Hacker News Reader

So FB can take over the VR market by over-moderating FB, and making Oculus a requirement to get support. Looks very anti-competitive and illegal.

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>making Oculus a requirement to get support. Looks very anti-competitive and illegal.

Intent matters a lot in law. Based on gp's description it definitely doesn't sound intentional, so it's probably fine from a legal point of view.

I think both the Valve Index and HP Reverb G2 are better headsets, and also better purchases by not having anything to do with Facebook.

So, no risk of a Facebook monopoly here.

Unfortunately, Facebook heavily subsidizes the cost of the Quest 2, while Index and Reverb G2 have to be sold at a profit.

Facebook is also deep in bed with Qualcomm making Quest 2 work fully standalone and getting the XR2 SOC at a steep discount. Index and Reverb G2 require desktop PCs and high-end GPUs, and other companies using the same Qualcomm SOC have to pay full price.

Looking at the marketshare numbers I think that attitude is incredibly naïve.

Huh? Facebook could even should down the Oculus stuff, if they wanted to.

Facebook making Oculus worse might be bad for customers, but it's great for Oculus' competition, ain't it?

Given the headline FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization, the parent post is accusing FB of abusing their market position in social networking (by having an intentionally over-eager ban hammer coupled with intentionally poor remediation for it) in order to sell more Oculus headsets (as owning an Oculus gets you access to a better support channel).

Oh, that makes more sense. Thanks!

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