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That's next years model. It will be called Mega Meta Pro. Its main feature is that it will live your Meta life for you so you can get on with your real life.

You misspelled Mega Meta Poo I think?

One thousand, four hundred ninety-ninety-nine dollars!

One dollar, four thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars. No, wait, that's the European comma: In US notation, $1.4999, or about a buck fifty.

Marketing people are assholes and think people are duped into thinking 499 somehow ISN'T just basically 500.

The trick is to always round up to the nearest million. That way, you're too poor to ever be able to afford anything, but you're never broke because you can't spend any money.

well there is about a 1% difference between $499 and $500 (depending on weather you base your calculation on $499 or $500)

well there is about a 1% difference between $499 and $500 (depending on weather you base your calculation on $499 or $500)

I think you need to go back to school to learn percentages and spelling.

To bad /. couldn't pay for any editors. /s

Can't get people on your platform, so you're gonna attach a $1,500 premium onto it? Maybe if I'd gone to business school, I'd understand this.

That's the beta tester fee. Beta testers pay that fee.

You should have read the EULA by now.

Try this. It'll help. [businessbu...dbingo.com] I'm playing hardball to facilitate a strategic gap.

You need a swift kick in the low-hanging fruit.

Doesn't matter what it is. Rich people will throw $1,499 at it to see what it does. lol.

I think I'll use the money to buy a new amateur radio transciever. I'll get far more enjoyment out of it for longer.

Damn you, Zuckerberg! Sneaking in an extra digit on us!

Me: Cool, I need money! Meta: No, you pay us 1500 USD. Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

So about on par with the Pico 4 capability wise, except the Pico 4 doesn't have the eye/face tracking. But $1,000 more. That's a whole lot for what amounts to very very little of consequence. If you pay that much, might as well get the Varjo with much nicer specs.

The biggest thing they have is lock-in for people that buy into Meta's store... But for that much money buy the titles again...

There are plenty who can't or won't examine what that extra $1000 gets them, and will still rush to spend it. For example, Apple customers.

I'm thinking Meta might have realized the general public will never buy into these helmets. Being resigned to low sales volumes, jacking up the price of the hardware might be the way for them to reach break-even on the whole Metaverse thing.

I play flight simulators, so I am actually in the market for a VR headset. I'm waiting until these things get to be more mature prod

For a flight sim, you'd probably just want an HP G2. Very high resolution, no external trackers to deal with. Costs just $350 now: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/... [hp.com]

A slight downside is tracking on the controllers (which have to be seen from the headset's cameras) but that's not an issue for flight simulators. I have an older Samsung Odyssey and it's easily "good enough" to have fun, though the resolution isn't there compared to the HP.

Yeah, another thing where the Quest 2 seems a *touch* better, but $1,000 better is a tough sell.

Will be interested in through the lense comparisons, if the Pico 4's somewhat higher resolution makes a practical difference or not. However I doubt it would touch the 'cheap' Varjo, which this price would compete directly with.

*Maybe* the fine grained backlight control will make the contrast better on Quest Pro than Pico 4. While I have tried OLED and LCD and the OLED is much nicer at darkness, in a VR headset

Just saw that, yeah, this is more weird for Meta's price point.

I'm just a bit uncertain about third-party ecosystem support, and ByteDance is even lower on my list of companies I feel comfortable with than Meta.

Probably the most exciting prospect would be for Deckard to be an impressive offering, if it comes out. Of course Valve doesn't have the most reliable track record for long term support of hardware products

If you're comparing this to a PS5 then you're not the target market. No one is buying this for gaming. It's targeted at people who don't give a shit about the cost and it's about 1/4 the cost of the "AR headset" which I recently trialed at work (which was an utter failure may I add).

$15K WTF! Ah typo, just $1500. Still, if it comes from Meta they will have to pay me to wear it until there is an ad blocker for it.

$15K WTF! Ah typo, just $1500. Still, if it comes from Meta they will have to pay me to wear it until there is an ad blocker for it.

But if there was an effective ad blocker installed the whole unit would just disappear.

I am pretty sure that $1,4999 isn't even a number.

Units go after the number.

I don't know why a lot of countries make some kind of special case for putting their dollar sign before the number, it makes no sense. It's not "dollars 1500", it's "1500 dollars". Get your shit together already.

because it lines up nicer in an accountant's register. Also in the US we put dollars before and cents after. Not unlike the UK putting £ before and p after.

This is nonsense. Putting the dollar sign at the end lines up better with the dollar sign at the end because you must right-align the numbers anyway for the decimals (cents, etc) to line up too. And if you need to specify both dollars and cents when writing numbers, you need to go back to school. We don't do that with other measurements either, for example we don't write "2kg500g" because it's redundant information when you can write either 2.5kg or 2500g.

You put the whole numbers in one column, the fractions in another. label the whole number column "dollars". Viola, you're a 19th century accountant.

How come everyone hates the viola?

What slashdot needs is meta-editors to edit the editors. Or, they could just hire real editors but, they probably cost money.

I am pretty sure that $1,4999 isn't even a number.

I am pretty sure that $1,4999 isn't even a number.

In some parts of Europe it means a dollar fifty after rounding.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Looks as if poor old Mark is panicking about the way that young people are deserting the platform and thinks "I know, I'll come up with a whole new paradigm, that'll attract them back".

The reality is that I don't know anyone who wants, let alone needs, this new metaverse and throwing a $1,500 roadblock in the way of uptake wont do anything to change their minds.

Facebook is so last decade and Metaverse will never be anything other than a black hole for Zuckies dollars.

[The] Metaverse will never be anything other than a black hole for Zuckies dollars.

(insert Grumpy Cat "Good" meme here)

It's for business. Presumably it's $1500 because Facebook thinks they can't mine it the same way they do the subsidized ones.

Abandoning your consumer-directed VR device and releasing an expensive business-oriented one is a great strategy. Just ask Magic Leap.

Mark! Don't listen to NewtonsLaw! I think you are wonderful and certainly not an evil autistic robot! Metaverse is the future! You will make all the moneys! Sell off everything you have and pour the money into Metaverse which is what everyone is secretly longing to join!

Look, I know Europeans and Americans are opposite in how they use commas and periods. I understand that the British use "billion" to mean a million million, rather than the American thousand million. But what the heck does $1,4999 mean? Is Zuckerface trying to reinvent math?

Is Zuckerface trying to reinvent math?

Is Zuckerface trying to reinvent math?

Might as well get in with the "math is racist" crowd and make some money off of them before we kick them in the nads for saying 2+2=reeks of white supremacist patriarchy [professorwatchlist.org]

That profile is...interesting. I wonder how "she?" would respond if asked why the white supremacy that keeps the WNBA down doesn't cause the same issue for the NBA, that is likely just as much full of minorities. It seems like it is a completely incomplete thought, or something that was not thought out.

I understand that the British use "billion" to mean a million million, rather than the American thousand million.

I understand that the British use "billion" to mean a million million, rather than the American thousand million.

No they don't. The British formalised the short scale in the 1970s and used it long before then too. There's no english speaking countries anymore to my knowledge that use billion to mean million million.

The only problem you're left with these days is translation from other languages. French, Spanish, German, Dutch, to name a few still use the words in the long scale (German example) Millionen, Milliarden, Billionen https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]

can someone explain to me who told the Zukerbot that people actually want whatever it is he is peddling, who told him there was a market for this? I am actually curious, is there a market? I mean I missed a lot of things ( a LOT of things), like I never played any of those garden games, I don't use whatzup, I don't have an IG or a TikTook account, I am basically modern illiterate when it comes to social media, I didn't buy bitcoin at 2 dollars a piece and didn't sell it at 60,000, etc.etc. Is there actual

With the way the world is going, that's not really a bad thing. Escape insanity by avoiding social media.

Is there actually a market for people putting on 3d glasses and spending most of their time in 3d?

Is there actually a market for people putting on 3d glasses and spending most of their time in 3d?

i would predict a *huge* market for this if the device meets expectations. good enough ergonomics + cheap enough recording functionality + cheap enough display for the masses = social media fad supernova. huge is an understatement. i don't think they're there yet, though.

One thing that occurs to me is the prospect of motion capture for actors. This may be a much more convenient approach to get rigging for the animations, and give the actor vision to a rough draft render of what they are interacting with. A niche to be sure, but trying to hunt for 'professional' clientele that might have reason to spend that much for face/eye tracking.

Facebook is Dead Man Walking.

They need to try something.

I hope they can keep up with demand.

Fix the title 1,4999 is not a valid price :)

I cannot wait to spend 1500 to go check out some legs in the multiverse! Oh sweet sweet legs.

Ask them if there is a special leg-only account option. The legs they don't show in the default account must be piling up in storage somewhere, they may as well pipe them to you or they are just going to waste.

Wake me when that's supported and built in.

Elite Dangerous should be no problem.

I haven't played a modern MechWarrior game, but there are equivilent VR games available.

The Quest 2 supported ED through either a wired high speed USB-C cable, or through a wireless network, so I can't see why this one would lose that functionality.

It is pretty amazing flying in ED in VR, the ship's cockpits look so much bigger, and the better depth perception comes in nice.

"up there where the sun never shines"

You are just a jealous hater! Don't listen, Mark! Metaverse is the future! It will be so profitable! Pour all your money into developing Metaverse!

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