• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    8 months ago

    Hopefully, someone is sitting on a root workaround, and will reveal it once the updates stop.

    I’d buy a second hand one, if there was a way to use it without any meta involvement.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      19
      ·
      8 months ago

      I’m expecting it, tbh

      I have a quest 2 and it’s actually a FANTASTIC headset, but I want to rip the meta shit out

      Not even because they’re a gross company (tho they are), I use a burner account with burner info and play in a gray room through a router specifically for my VR (almost completely lag free wireless this way, it works) but because I HATE that they made you have arms in an update and didn’t let us turn it off. They’re horrid

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        8 months ago

        I have a quest 2 and it’s actually a FANTASTIC headset

        Yes, because of John Fifth-Dimensional-Being-Pretending-to-be-a-Human Carmack.

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          8 months ago

          “oh, do you need me to just invent the fundamental technology for a massive sector of computing again? Sure, no problem, have it to ya by Friday”

          • John Carmack on multiple occasions
      • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        8 months ago

        they made you have arms in an update and didn’t let us turn it off

        What? I’m guessing they made it so your arms show up in-game somehow???

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          8 months ago

          Not in games, but in the main hub menu of the device

          It tries to guess where your arms are based on controller position

          It’s c r a p