07-22-2020 06:27 AM
07-27-2020 03:44 PM
Zenbane said:GO is dead... its dead jim!!! Hes not coming back, but we did pick up his cooler younger brother Quest.Hmm, but you keep saying "Quest-2-GO" so that means GO has... resurrected? GO can't be both dead and alive at the same time, bro. GO CV1 is dead, but GO CV2 is alive? You call GO CV2, Quest-2-GO. Other side of the exact same coin.
07-27-2020 10:16 PM
07-27-2020 10:58 PM
Mradr said:Killing GO was the right move to stop more of this confusion going forward
07-28-2020 01:16 AM
kevinw729 said:
Interest summation of the situation. I will counter that with this view of the possibilities:
1. Quest-Lite = a $299 platform with a Snapdragon 845 and reduced construction as a replacement to the cheap entry level VR
2. Rift 2 = a $499 platform as a replacement to the Rift-S and competitor to the Reverb G2, using Quest components, but also using Half Dome2 elements
3. Quest 2 = a $499 version of the Quest with enhanced elements, the Half Dome2 optics package, and a enhanced Link cable that can be connected to a console (XboxSX) [built exclusively to compete against the new PSVR2]
Those are the current options for the next 24-months, as I see them.
07-28-2020 01:43 AM
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07-28-2020 09:41 AM
07-28-2020 12:40 PM
DaftnDirect said:Considering the supply issue that we've been having, which started before, but made much worse by Coronavirus, I just can't see anyone at Oculus thinking that increasing headset models would be a good idea. I can imagine streamlining production being a buzz phrase over there right now.
07-28-2020 03:30 PM
Mradr said:
DaftnDirect said:Considering the supply issue that we've been having, which started before, but made much worse by Coronavirus, I just can't see anyone at Oculus thinking that increasing headset models would be a good idea. I can imagine streamlining production being a buzz phrase over there right now.
How so? I mean - if you are "short on supply" of a product part - then that causes the whole unit to be delay. Thus, wouldn't a tiny spread help? For example, SoCs are usually made in batches and same with screens. If you get short supply on one of them - you are kind of stuck, yet, if you had two different products you could continue to sell the other until the batches come in for the others as they use different parts.
Then there is the flip side of things - you still have to have workers building them of course. Yet, that is a simple fix of hiring more workers.
Then there is also the price differences - are they going to just stick with the lower price point then? You can't keep yoyoing the price up and down if you are not going to sell two different products either. IF you do - or think you could - then what about the people that want the lower price unit? Or the people that want the higher price unit when they switch during that cycle? Wouldn't make sense.
Your best bet - is you keep it to base a model - then upgrade that base model instead - this way you reuse the same parts over and over again yet you change out the parts that have higher risk of delay like the SoC and the screens.