It's totally for your convenience and enhancement of ux.

Any small independent business that is likely to dominate a new sector will nearly always be acquired by a existing business with deep pockets. In retrospect this was inevitable. I feel naive for not predicting it when Oculus was founded.

Yeah, but it didn't have to be facebook. And if VR fans had boycotted facebook's VR offerings, instead of pretending that fb's business model wasn't at supervillian levels of "evil", things could have been different. It may have taken us longer to get VR to the technical level where we're at, but we'd have a much more safer, diverse, and open ecosystem available to us. The VR community basically sacrificed the future of VR in exchange for cheaper headsets and a slightly quicker journey on the rise of the adoption curve.

Who knows, maybe it's not too late. There's a lot of ire on /r/oculus with people talking about moving to valve indexes and reverb g2s. If enough people abandon the oculus ship they might be able to hamper facebook's growth, but I think it may be too late. Too many people don't get the threat.

I wonder what Facebook will do with all the data it collects from people's VR porn sessions...

Well they definitely won't use a person's uncontrollable preferences to manipulate them, if that's what you're thinking!

That's good to hear! I was worried.

F Facebook. A shame to lose them on this, but there are a ton of great alternatives out there with more popping up frequently.

I am happy for now with my index.

I have an oculus go 128gb...guess I'll be looking how to jail break it, its a god damn android after all.

I don't mind my VIVE is attached to Steam, Steam is really good for VR. BUTT I think the better VR would be like a laptop, totally autonomous leaving you to decide who you want to hook up too to supply your content.