Hi all. For those of you experimenting with Virtual Reality: The $550 Oculus Quest, best VR headset that doesn't require tethering to a PC, has been nearly impossible to get (at regular price) since September. It's now for sale at both Amazon and Best Buy. Delivery only -- no in-store pickup because the stores are closed. Best Buy can ship faster right now but its just being available for purchase on either site is not very common. -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch or @el56
Can this device be used under Linux natively, preferably without things like Wine ? What sort of Linux support if any can be expected ? On 03/28/2020 08:00 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Hi all.
For those of you experimenting with Virtual Reality:
The $550 Oculus Quest, best VR headset that doesn't require tethering to a PC, has been nearly impossible to get (at regular price) since September. It's now for sale at both Amazon and Best Buy. Delivery only -- no in-store pickup because the stores are closed.
The Quest is a standalone device, not a peripheral. Its native OS is highly-mutated Android so in that sense it is already running under a Linux kernel and AOSP underpinnings. To my knowledge (tho I may be wrong) there are no third-party Linux distributions for it such as LineageOS. Wine is irrelevant because it's an ARM rather than x86 device. On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 19:16, J. Hart via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Can this device be used under Linux natively, preferably without things like Wine ? What sort of Linux support if any can be expected ?
On 03/28/2020 08:00 AM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Hi all.
For those of you experimenting with Virtual Reality:
The $550 Oculus Quest, best VR headset that doesn't require tethering to a PC, has been nearly impossible to get (at regular price) since September. It's now for sale at both Amazon and Best Buy. Delivery only -- no in-store pickup because the stores are closed.
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I noticed it’s between in and out of stock on a weekly basis. Does anyone know why? Is BB only getting limited supply? On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 7:00 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all.
For those of you experimenting with Virtual Reality:
The $550 Oculus Quest, best VR headset that doesn't require tethering to a PC, has been nearly impossible to get (at regular price) since September. It's now for sale at both Amazon and Best Buy. Delivery only -- no in-store pickup because the stores are closed.
Best Buy can ship faster right now but its just being available for purchase on either site is not very common.
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Demand has outstripped supply by far more than FB expected. Reviews for the device have been almost universally glowing. Supply issues have been a problem worldwide since before Xmas, and virus-caused disruption at the Chinese factories that make it certainly aren't helping. - Evan On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 at 12:50, Ansar Mohammed via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I noticed it’s between in and out of stock on a weekly basis. Does anyone know why? Is BB only getting limited supply?
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 7:00 PM Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all.
For those of you experimenting with Virtual Reality:
The $550 Oculus Quest, best VR headset that doesn't require tethering to a PC, has been nearly impossible to get (at regular price) since September. It's now for sale at both Amazon and Best Buy. Delivery only -- no in-store pickup because the stores are closed.
Best Buy can ship faster right now but its just being available for purchase on either site is not very common.
-- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch or @el56 --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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