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Sounds good but as far as I'm concerned, Oculus is still hot with the radioactivity of Facebook. I have no interest in giving them direct access to a device I put on my head. As soon as they announced the account merging I sold my Rift CV1. Just bought an Index since it's superior hardware for PCVR anyway and Valve cares about user freedom (their Linux gaming work being one example).

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How is it superior? Quest 2 is the only wireless headset (arguably the biggest QoL feature unless you like pulley systems on your ceiling), and spec wise it roughly matches the Index (you win some, you lose some). I despise Facebook but I got the Quest 2 cause of wirelessness, as for the account you can create a dummy Oculus Developer account (workaround will work till January 2023).

There will be others. I'll wait.

Wireless just doesn't matter much to me, even without a wire pulley system. Just letting it hang has always been fine and I suspect a lot of Index users would agree with me. The tradeoffs to go wireless aren't worth it at all either.

The workaround you mentioned might as well not exist if it's going to stop existing a little more than a year from now. It wouldn't make sense to buy a new device now if one wants to avoid Facebook sign in.

It isn't actually the only wireless headset. ByteDance has one, and I think I can recall a couple more, but I'm not sure about it.

They are, however, the only company with good inside out tracking. Their competitors are pretty bad so far.

Yeah, the fact it has a camera taking video of your living space outside the headset makes it even creeper.. same goes for their built in web-browser.

I've discouraged many people from buying one and the world is better for it

facebook is the business equivalent of toxic waste, the only notable thing about them is that they help make some people rich

I'd love to get root access on an Index, but it's not possible right now.

The index is just a HMD right? all the computing happens on the PC? What do you mean, root access on an Index?

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