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0 pointsonepointsixC3y ago0 comments

That sounds like a bold faced lie to me. To quote the article:

>Meta sells reasonably good gaming headsets to customers who want to be entertained in VR; we're selling general-purpose productivity devices which are aimed at replacing PCs and laptops. So our real competition is laptops & PCs, not other gaming headsets.

Everything Meta has been releasing publicly about their VR Headset plans make it blatantly clear that it is not only targeting gaming.

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ece3y ago· 2 in thread

How about a look at Meta's app sales to prove that? I think this list of who the subpoena was served to is pretty hilarious, and it's even more hilarious that Apple's not on this list:

Alphabet Inc.

ByteDance Inc.

HTC America, Inc.

Huawei Technologies USA, Inc.

Nintendo of America Inc.

Panasonic Corporation of North America

Samsung Electronics America, Inc.

Simula VR, LLC

I think the malicious intent is all on Meta's side. They have a head start with Occulus, no one else is even close in the US.

onepointsixCOP3y ago

In what way is the subpoena hilarious? All of those companies to my knowledge are players in the VR space with hardware.

Google has Daydream, and working on more

Bytedance has the Pico's

HTC has the Vive

Huawei has one as well, don't remember it right now

Nintendo has something similar to daydream but for the Switch

Panasonic has the MeganeX

Samsung has the Gear

Simula have their headset

They all sell some form of headset hardware.

ece3y ago

It's hilarious because of Simula's size compared to the rest, and because it doesn't include Apple/Valve, and really, only those two should even be on the list at all! They literally subpoenaed everyone except their real potential competition. I get it, they subpoenaed whoever they could. I think the FTC in the Bloomberg story linked in the post said it best: "It reflects their scorched-earth defense strategy here to fight in whatever manner is available to them"

There isn't anyone with a current model headset like the Quest, that is even remotely close in market share in the US.

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