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Not great news but I'm not overly concerned tbh, I think we all knew that VR/MR wasn't making them money at the moment, and afaik there are job losses going on throughout Meta, not just in Reality Labs. Every year they cull the "underperformers" as they call them.
 
The whole gaming industry is undergoing a massive contraction. Many companies over-hired during covid when people were stuck home and couldn't do much except play games and watch netflix, and now the market isn't big enough to support all those staff unfortunately.

As VR is more niche and less profitable you'll see lots of this in VR too unfortunately.
 
On the plus there's quite a few headsets getting traction e.g bigscreen2.

Outside gaming, I'd love a headset that is a little like the xreal but with a little more grunt and the interactivity of the quest with hand gestures for productivity.

I'm regularly on the move at work and when at a stationary workstation often have 2 screens. I'd love the ability to be able to open my laptop anywhere - connect/plug instantly with my glasses and have multiple screens.

Hell have the Bluetooth capability with your phone.

Honestly imagine if this could be offered for sub £200. It would sell easily to businesses alone. Build up a baseline of income here. Generate an r&d department of the back of this and offer more premium options / venturing into gaming.
 
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drakulton said:
Meta will be taking down the Mobile VR Station app, this is bad news.

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Yep this affects me directly, some users of my app use Mobile VR Station to install it as they don't have a PC, soon they'll no longer be able to do so. There are quite a lot of Quest users with no access to a PC. No way, especially now, am I putting my app on the Meta Store, I'm going off Meta rather quickly :(
 
i saw that news and didnt know if it would effect you Tykey,i guess the question is, is there a way you can include a self updater?
api call to get secret user/pw/download link program downloads update?

but agree meta are rapidly loosing confidence from the devs and user base.
it could be why devs are migrating apps to pc store maybe a bit more?
 
Tykey said:
Yep this affects me directly, some users of my app use Mobile VR Station to install it as they don't have a PC, soon they'll no longer be able to do so. There are quite a lot of Quest users with no access to a PC. No way, especially now, am I putting my app on the Meta Store, I'm going off Meta rather quickly :(
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Seems to be a replacement for Mobile VR station -

VR Android File Manager on Meta Quest | Quest VR games | Meta Store

Access the native Android file manager on your Meta Quest. Browse and manage your files with ease
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Thekwango said:
they emailed everyone - you need to be available to visit their office in London as the survey is in person - at least as far as i can see from the email i received.
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Didn't email me!!

I feel left out. If MegaCorps aren't interested in me or my data :(
 
ShiWarrior said:
If they offer free train and hotels ...
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they don't - though they do offer an 80 quid voucher to any one selected to attended. p.s. the email isn't actually an invite to attend, it's an invite to apply to attend. you still have to be selected after applying
 
Well, email says its a survey will take 5 mins to complete
 

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that's what i got - would have probably went along, but it's a bit far from NI

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