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Samsung gears up to release Apple Vision Pro rival in 2025

No, it wasn't. I just bought one and still needed a Meta account. Where are you getting this bullshit, stop it

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10 hr. ago

Samsung gears up to release Apple Vision Pro rival in 2025

Great, more prohibitively expensive, feature-stripped, mobile phone based VR slop with proprietary app stores.

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3 wk. ago

On the Quest 3, around what FOV should I be setting VR modded games to?

Isn't that more of a flatscreen thing?

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Virtual Reality @lemmy.world

3 wk. ago • 93%

On the Quest 3, around what FOV should I be setting VR modded games to?

This information is shockingly hard to find, and redditors are as confidently, vigorously clueless and unhelpful as always.

A lot of VR mods for flatscreen games are pretty lazily thrown together, so it's on the user to configure everything correctly. There has to be a general recommended number for first person games on the Quest 3's display, right?

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3 wk. ago

[Solved] [Win10] How do I prevent a USB docked HDD from spinning down constantly?

So the "turn off disks after" setting was already set, and USB selective suspend already disabled, BUT those are apparently overridden for USB connected drives if the "Allow the computer to turn off this device" box is checked for that USB hub in Windows Device Manager (Power Management tab).

All of those had defaulted to 'on' since I upgraded my mobo, so I think I've got it now.

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3 wk. ago • 86%

[Solved] [Win10] How do I prevent a USB docked HDD from spinning down constantly?

I have a full sized HDD in a USB 3 dock, and my power settings inactive timer is set to 300 minutes. This doesn't appear to be applying to the docked HDD, as it spins down in about 5 minutes or less. It takes forever to spin back up when I access it, so how can I change this?

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1 mo. ago • 71%

[Meta/Oculus VR and Windows 10 related] Is it possible to get JUST the oculus xr runtimes for Virtual Desktop without installing the Oculus app?

I'm trying to use Virtual Desktop with a Quest 3 and want to skip Steam VR wherever humanly possible. Problem is, this isn't possible most of the time because I can't install the Oculus app, which is supposedly required to use the xr runtime and avoid going through Steam.

The oculusSetup.exe installer crashers before showing any UI on my system (Win10 Home x64), making installation impossible. This occurred both before and after upgrading my motherboard, Intel CPU, and ram kit. I've gone through a laundry list of advanced troubleshooting over the past month or so, and I won't get into that here.

Instead, I'm really hoping there is a way to run PCVR games/apps through VD with openxr runtimes that DON'T rely on running SteamVR (for performance/latency reasons), WITHOUT needing to install the actual Oculus app on my PC.

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1 mo. ago

For Libreoffice, are there preset keyboard layouts available to more closely mimic Excel behavior?

I found a solution myself, if anyone else is wondering.

There's an easier way to get the same effect: Shift-Click your cell(s) and drag where you want it/them, then hold Alt before releasing to drop it in place and auto re-order the column.

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2 mo. ago

Official Quest 3S Image Leaks Ahead of Anticipated Meta Connect Unveiling

Oh no, we're on it for the same reasons. I honestly would be willing to shill the doubled price point of a PCVR headset, but ALL of them (excluding the massively overpriced) have shit-tier displays compared to the Quest 3, which is why I can't quite justify it yet. Of course, if Meta wasn't selling at a loss it wouldn't even be a question, just fuck them.

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2 mo. ago • 94%

For Libreoffice, are there preset keyboard layouts available to more closely mimic Excel behavior?

Not much else to say. At the least I want the ability to cut one cell and then CTRL+"+" it elsewhere in the column. I used to be able to reorder items in a column like this without leaving a blank cell where I cut from, but Calc doesn't do this.

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2 mo. ago

Official Quest 3S Image Leaks Ahead of Anticipated Meta Connect Unveiling

REALLY wish Valve would just upgrade their display. Would help if peripheral headset companies weren't price gouging out the ass for worthless gimmicks.

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3 mo. ago

South Africa Rejects Copyright Lobby Critique, Defends Broad 'Fair Use' Exceptions.

South Africa W

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3 mo. ago

Zero Caliber 2 Promises A Cinematic VR FPS Soon On Quest

I can't even begin to explain why that is such a stupid fucking statement

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3 mo. ago

Zero Caliber 2 Promises A Cinematic VR FPS Soon On Quest

Gross, "cinematic FPS" and "VR" should NEVER be used in the same fucking sentence. Whoever thought this was a good idea, you need to start listening to people and seek a different career path like you've definitely been told a million times before.

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4 mo. ago

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ba1815b925e80374572ad347e3151e41b14877a0690e9fe40f39fdc33e0f420f/detection

Looks like a false positive, but could you offer an explanation of what's being detected as "Trojan.Autoit.Wirus", what it does, and how it's harmless?

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4 mo. ago

The Netflix app for Quest headsets is no more

Of course. It looked like shit and streamed like hot garbo even on normal computers and smart TVs, I can only imagine how fucking miserable VR Netflix was. And it's Netflix, no one should be paying for that slop any more anyway. lol, as if VR would ever maintain any kind of meaningful suite of services.

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4 mo. ago

Meta's HUD Glasses Reportedly Won't Be Ray-Ban Branded

I genuinely hate what VR has become. They're signing this tech's death warranty and they should know that. After over a decade we've just about plateaued in terms of developing objectively better headsets, and fucked any chance of having a PCVR/peripheral headset that actually looks good, has good tracking, and works universally with whatever the fuck you want too hook up to it without being $1500 or more.

Not to mention locomotion hasn't made any real progress and we've actually scrapped a lot of promising looking haptics tech that could have been a standard feature of VR controllers. We've also lost any hope of 3rd party controller support.

We're cooked, and I don't see this going anywhere good. Keep what you have for novelty's sake and future 'collector's' value, but don't bother looking forward to a future of VR or AR beyond gimmicky shit like google glasses and whatever the fuck Cuckerberg is doing.

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4 mo. ago

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say

What?

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4 mo. ago

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say

It's not a lack of software that killed it, it's the lack of ability to use any meaningful library of software due to proprietary restraints, as always. I don't know when everyone made the switch from VR as a peripheral to strictly proprietary, "stand-alone" (and die alone) headsets, but it's literally killing VR as a whole.

Don't get me wrong, the current strict PCVR companies aren't any better. They see what's happening and are doubling down on the massive cost hike despite looking shittier and technically having less features than SA headsets. That being said, they work INFINITELY smoother with PC apps and game and movies, in addition to higher quality tracking systems and third-party hardware support. This alone should put them ahead by a long-shot, but being an unaffordable hobby niche doesn't help when large corpos can churn out headsets full of "stand-alone" bloat at a loss just to devour the majority of the VR market and lock people into hopeless, proprietary hellscapes.

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4 mo. ago

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say

Completely disagree with you here, and you really didn't explain any of it. In what way does the apple face-book-mac whatever the fuck do things "way nicer" than any other headset? I get that the resolution is objectively higher than the mid-to-low end sets, but a complete lack of actual features negates that. Does the UI just have super silky animations? Transparent icons? A really sexy audio cue when you boot it up? All of this is fluff to make people feel like they made a good purchase decision.

I'm almost certain that you've been using this little "polish" phrase for years to justify being an Apple stan without thinking about it. You see literally any other option as the intimidating, lifted-truck meany that doesn't appreciate that mirror shine on the back of your phone.

And yeah, most people are fresh-out of innovation. That's besides the point, and you know it. Apple is included on that lineup, and they're furious that someone else came up with VR and they somehow let the market create a variety of products before they could reliably gimmick the fuck out of it like they always do. Your turtle-neck fruit daddy died a long time ago, no one has any business considering Apple a respectable company anymore.

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4 mo. ago

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say

Which is exactly my point. They cater to people who want the shiniest 'new' thing with a sense of faux class to it, and will strip some pretty fucking bare-bones features in place of "polish". Such a stupid, meaningless word to excuse a complete and utter lack of anything of substance.

90% of the apps and games that got people interested in VR aren't even compatible, and you KNOW they never will be. What the fuck else are you gonna do with this $3500 toy? Read emails and watch full-priced movies on iTunes? BUT MAN IT'S LIKE TOUCH SCREEN, BUT EVERYWHERE AND IN REAL LIFE! There's nothing here. 'Polish' isn't a real thing. It's a cherry-on-top adjective for something that already has inherent value, it isn't something of real value in its self.

Sorry man, I gotta go off on this 'compelling and polished' thing. Apple does maybe one "compelling" thing per decade, but even that seems like a thing of the past now. They've been riding the one-trick-pony that is the touch-screen smartphone for fucking ever now, and as amazing as people think it is to have a powerful computer in the palm of your hand, it's contributed shockingly little beyond making the cell phone A. societally mandatory for everyone, and B. MASSIVELY expensive compared to what could have been.

Now sure, it's slightly more convenient to pay for parking and complete rudimentary "productivity" tasks that you might need your laptop for, but that can be accomplished with much less. About the most "compelling" thing this technology has contributed to the world is the ability to endlessly doomscroll through funny little pictures and videos, with some REALLY sub-par and barely-tolerable games to make your city transit commute feel almost bearable. No, it's not going to get any better, they've had WAY too long. It's not going to happen now.

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4 mo. ago

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say

Apple isn't really a military contract/industrial complex type, they're more the retarded, pretentious rich people and retarded poor-ish people who think they're rich because they saved 15% or more on Geico type.

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4 mo. ago

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say

This is triple-priced in even the most generous case, and 7x higher than the Quest 3.

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