As regards not liking Meta - it’s not what most people may think - I don’t like social media for some reasons, but I didn’t hesitate (much…) to make a FB profile so I could keep using my headset - but it did also keep me in touch with my biker buds, so wasn’t all bad.
no - it’s more about their policies and ethos (or is that the same thing, really?). I couldn’t give a hoot about socialising in VR - not since Dead & Buried MP died and was , well y’know…
It’s that they won’t let us decide what we want to do. They want us to do the things that are better for them in VR - for their targets. If we don’t want that they will try and force it down our necks - and if they can’t they will shove it front of our faces every time we put on our headsets.
That’s the main reason I won’t buy another Meta headset - on top of the fact that who knows what they will change and require us to sign up to, next.
I’ve been sharing this in a few different places and heard similar things. It seems our best hope for support and keeping unsupported headsets working is the open-source OpenXR runtime Monado. They have already come pretty far by reverse engineering WMR already.
Windows MCE went poof, after I spent over a grand on a small form factor build and a Ceton TV Tuner, which as soon as MCE was removed, was a $300 useless card.
That rig was eventually converted to a plex box, but the tuner card, like the Intensity Pro I bought for HDMI recording Console gameplay, now sits in a “unsuppported” box in my closet.
Its just a historical (and documented!) fact that Microsoft abandons things at seemingly random intervals, and woe betide any consumer believing that any purchase from them is/was from a company with even the slightest interest in standing behind its products longer than determined by the whims of its various bean counters, struggling to prove their own value…
harsh dude. But things are as they are. And not just with M$. Heck aint all of our planet treated like that? Gotta have good quarterlies, and the rest be damned.
We’ll all be here, bitterly repeating the same thing if MSFS ever goes the way of FSX, Windows Phone, Zune, Teams Live Events, Skype for Business, Cortana, Xbox Games Store, Altspace VR, Kinect…
I will say that FSX being a stable code base for a decade plus wasn’t a bad thing, we got a lot of wonderful high quality aircraft because of that stability.
