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Why do you say Facebook threw it away? Talk to most consumers and Oculus is almost a synonym for VR like a "Xerox machine." I wont weigh on on the tech merits vs competitors but the brand is strong.

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They decided to rebrand as Meta, abandoning their strong oculus brand identity.

I took a good look at VR headsets in December thinking I wanted one for software development and concluded: (1) Oculus was the only one I could buy in a retail store, (2) I could pay 60% more and get a better VR headset but in terms of value for an acceptable product Oculus could not be beat -- if logging into Facebook didn't make it unacceptable.

That's because they subsidize their cost [1].

It's probably not smart to praise value/cost, when the company is literally trying to take over the metaverse.

[1]: https://uploadvr.com/zuckerberg-meta-headsets-cost/

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