Of course, although it also requires a setting up a 'fake' phone number. I just don't want to touch the Meta ToS – as I haven't for more than a decade – even with a ten-meter anonymous pole.
A better solution would be to ask a friend to activate it, but I haven't because there were other yaks to be shaved.
> it seems harsh to say “isn’t true at all”
You cannot activate an Oculus Go today and "randomly" discover the same activated "shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now". I'm just trying to correct the record, as AFAIK the news stories about this have been undisputed since 2021. It's a fantastic achievement that the bootloader can be unlocked at all, and I certainly hope that it will set a precedent (but I won't be holding my breath).
No, the device in his hypothetical is randomly discovered, so it is not ungenerous to assume that the person discovering it randomly didn’t happen to have set up a dev account. Because most people don’t have these types of accounts, a random person discovering the device should not be assumed to have one.
Additionally, he’s clearly describing something serendipitous, not something that requires planning ahead by 20 years.
I am generally against creating unnecessary e-waste but let's be real, it will likely be better to recycle it and experiment with something else in that time frame...
Much in the same way I will happily play a well maintained pinball machine from the last millennium, or an arcade game in a lovingly restored cabinet from 30+ years ago.
There is an allure to retro-gaming with MAME (which I love), but for some of us, going properly vintage can have a special meaning.
I think work still has a carton or two of actual cardboard boxes with plastic lenses that you shove any random phone into, from when we were doing VR meeting stuff back at the beginning of Covid.
The retro computer museum in Leicester has a few of the Virtuality systems, which are still great fun.
Loads of people hack on old hardware.