Definitely does a lot more than the Vision Pro does though, waaay more useful.

I think you can order prescription lenses with it. Maybe with the halo strap it might accommodate glasses nicely.

The Quest 2 and 3 finally are a properly viable platform that millions of people use, but it still feels like Meta doesn’t want it to be a “Microsoft’s Xbox” sort of situation, they still want it to be a “Google’s Android” situation instead. It’s been an utterly bizarre time watching all of this occur in real time as someone that bought her first headset in 2017; their priorities have always been completely misaligned with the achievements they’re actually making.

Needed to ditch the original strap and put the Bobo M3 strap on it, but once that was done it was the first time I was able to use VR with no weight on my cheekbones. Wildly changed how I felt about it as it was suddenly so comfortable I could use it for hours without discomfort.

I personally feel like the Quest 3 is the most comfortable headset I’ve ever owned (previously owned the CV1 and the Quest 1) and that for me trumps all of its issues with the lens/display setup.

I am desperate for Valve to succeed and really shake up the market but I think they’ll continue to make headsets that cost over $1K and just aren’t palatable to a wider audience. Hopefully Deckard is at the very least good enough to justify that price. I certainly have more faith in them after loving the Steam Deck.

I posted the article mostly for discussion, I personally have had a great time play AC: Nexus VR lately. But it does feel like the market is in a bit of a weird place right now as Meta/Apple are both pushing AR and non-gaming use cases, when the only thing these headsets have really been shown to be superior at is playing games.

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Just become a gaming hermit that only emulates PS3 games and you’ll be fine.

Language learning: I tricked myself into building a daily flashcard study habit by using gambling as an incentive. I bought a box of Magic the Gathering packs and allowed myself to open one a day only after I had finished my daily flashcard study. According to Atomic Habits it takes roughly 50 days for a habit to be set in stone as part of your daily routine. A full box of Magic packs took me to day 36. Feels like a bit of an unethical life pro-tip, but once you’re over that hump of forming the daily habit it becomes a lot easier, so find a way to hack your brain and make it feel rewarding until it becomes automatic.

Shame people are using this as an opportunity to bash on plural people rather than discuss the clear and obvious ways that Matrix has fallen short of what it could/should be. Same thing happens whenever I mention I’m polyamorous, it’s still one of those acceptable /r/unpopularopinion type beats that everyone goes crazy for.

Anyways I’m considering IRC or XMPP for my next internet hangout spot, let me know if something better comes along.

It’s just wild to watch Bluesky fans stumble over themselves to say it’s part of a federated future and that it’s decentralized yada yada, when it takes millions of dollars to do with it what takes me $80 for a Raspberry Pi and $15 for a domain name to do with ActivityPub.

This is very recent news but there is a group of people on Bluesky that are looking at setting up their own PDS, but it feels clear to me that the system as designed is so heavily biased against third parties doing this. It’s just such a completely different vibe compared to ActivityPub platforms that are built so strongly around the goal of making it easy to do in order to make it more widely distributed.

Reading Nevada by Imogen Binnie finally allowed me to come out as trans to myself when I was in my teens. No other book has changed my life that profoundly.

You can also do it even if you only play on a PC, it doesn’t require a headset, but it’s a great way to feel like you’re actually talking to another human being.

Tried doing some language exchange on the ENG-JP VR Chat world earlier this week, and was faced with the stark reality that I need to drill grammar and basic conversational sentences more first. Day 453 of daily Anki vocab study.

For me it’s the opposite: I’m always shocked when broadly different people end up aligning on certain similar traits along multiple axes. Like conlanging and Linux or trans girls and communism.

We’re just asking people to be COVID-safe to the best of their judgement.

Aha! An answer. Thank you!

AI-generated art will never not give me the ick

Running this on Fedora, and when I try to log into my account I get the following error:

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_path_match: assertion 'root != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_array: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_array_get_length: assertion 'array != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_string: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_path_match: assertion 'root != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_array: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_array_get_length: assertion 'array != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_string: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: g_error_new_literal: assertion 'message != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: g_task_return_error: assertion 'error != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: GTask 0x558c1e157780 (source object: (nil), source tag: (nil)) finalized without ever returning (using g_task_return_*()). This potentially indicates a bug in the program.