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Comment by CursedUrn | Hacker News Reader

Meta definitely isn't focused on fidelity and graphics. Their mobile VR push degraded VR graphics significantly.

Or, you could say that Meta is focused on an audience that doesn't have a highish end gaming PC, and have a relatively small budget (say $400), which is probably most. For realistic hardware spread, see: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

But, they do still support that type of user with AirLink/USB. Problem is, there's not enough of those users, so many of the developers target Quest users, which where the eyes are.

I think a step function in VR quality, which requires a step function in the number of eyes behind a powerful system, will come with PSVR 2.

Carmack was the one who was pushing for mobile.

Yeah in my opinion him pushing so hard for GearVR seriously negatively impacted the industry. Tons of people had their first intro to VR be some crappy 360 video on mobile VR and it did lasting damage to society's perception of VR

Crappy 360 video on mobile had nothing to do with gearvr.

Ok then crappy 3dof VR on mobile, of which GearVR was a variety. Bottom line, Facebook/Carmack pushed mobile vr prematurely in order to get the most users possible, but the experience sucked and users lost interest. Meta just made the same mistake with horizon

GearVR was not crappy.

From the text it seems that mobile is not the issue "5% GPU utilization" screams of seriously large problems on the CPU side. What where they writing their software with? CPython, an interpreter only JavaScript runtime?

Also the current generation of VR was basically build on top of smartphone hardware and there where quite a few ideas to make use of the full hardware instead of using it as a dumb display.

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