8 days ago you would never buy a gimmicky device. Now a screen facehugger (which does even less than an iPad and is useful in even fewer situations) is the best thing you ever bought?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188372

One man’s gimmick is another’s useful device.

I don’t use my iPad much…or didn’t, until I had a toddler and long car rides. I either used my phone or my PC, or a projector for movies. The iPad didn’t really fit in there.

I use my Quest 3 often. I can see why someone would have his opinion.

I already have an Android phone. What does the iPad do that my Android phone can't? Seriously, I have $300, I'll go buy one right now if you make a solid argument.

There are plenty of things my Quest does that an iPad and phone both can't do. Yes it's a toy, but it's a toy I get great mileage out of flying the F/A-18 in Microsoft Flight Simulator on a world tour. For $400, that's a steal. I've got telemetry disabled and it all runs great on my Linux box.

I'm not going to go buy a tablet to play HD Plants Versus Zombies for the 400th time. Sorry.

I use my Quest 2 constantly but the moment that rumored Valve Index with inside-out tracking becomes available I'm switching. Not only is the association with Facebook not great, their Windows desktop software is awful and constantly breaking. PCVR took a big back seat to the weak on-board stuff with the Quests.

Almost everyone I know who got a quest stopped using it after a week.

It's a fun toy, but gets boring pretty quickly.

I use mine for flight simming. The screen looks great for the price, and lets me stream games like DCS World from my desktop.

Far as fun toys go, the Quest sits head-and-shoulders over my Nintendo Switch.

For flight simming it really is much better. Being able to look to one side while "feeling" the offset (I can't explain it but you know what I mean) is a huge deal

For me too, I use mine for hours every week

Meanwhile I have a friend group (mostly build from real-life relationships) that gets together once a week for the last ~3 years to play VR games.

YMMV :-)

I used mine everyday for about 2 months but eventually reached the boredom stage.

There is just shockingly so little going on in VR.

There is also the issue that it is like a drug that the first few times are so mind blowing but your tolerance builds so fast. Then there is nothing stronger to up the dosage.

At one point it told you everyone on your friends list that had also got one - and in my case it was basically everyone I knew from work over the years. Literally the only people that used it more than two weeks were those working on VR.

Even if you try to stick with it you grow to dread all interaction with their app or OS. They have some superb technology but the product management is atrocious.