Microsoft “As we discussed at MWC 2019,” the spokesperson said, “we continue to develop with the idea of #Open at the forefront—in which we believe that for an ecosystem to truly thrive there should be no barriers to innovation or customer choice.”
Isnt that about as genuine as Tim Sweeney who said that the PC platform should remain open for PC gaming and chastising microsoft for locking down their games (paraphrasing) before then doing exactly that with epic store?
unless i am wrong, and i am sure you will correct me if i am!....... neither oculus VR OR lighthouse VR users can access the exclusive software on the microsoft store.
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Take the first, small step into a virtual Halo world with Halo Recruit. This free training experience will introduce you to the characters, weapons, and universe of Halo through the power of Windows Mixed Reality.
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as for palmer luckey hypocrisy that you state.... its not really imo......
Palmer Luckey as an oculus employee telling us about Oculus choosing to not officially support a wrapper within their software, but to officially state that they tolerated it and would not block it (early teething problems not withstanding)
is kind of different than Palmer Luckey as a private user with a boatload of cash, supporting a software endeavour for the betterment of VR unofficially via a donation.
I actually think both you and snowdog are cut from the same cloth... you both are utterly convinced you are right with no grey area in between with an obvious "good guy" and "bad guy", despite us not really having all the facts.
The 1 area where I personally think valve are definitely better than oculus is that valve allow software developers to officially support the oculus SDK on the valve store front.......... its actually obvious why, as it will make valve more money...... but oculus dont do that and indeed go 1 step further and force developers to actively rip out steamVR support from their games on the oculus store.
that is poor, and also imo bone headed..... I prefer the oculus infrastructure, I prefer how it has better software curation and find it just a higher quality place to use as my place to launch VR titles from.
but because i am not blindly locked into "must buy oculus VR" at the back of my mind with any purchases i am thinking about what will my next headset be.... therefore IF i can buy a title on steam with both steamVR AND native oculus support I will buy it on steam.
This may change as more games get quest cross buy on oculus but that is a different thing again!.
but all of that does not change the fact that oculus buying Sanzaru games is no different to Sony buying Insomniac and it is hypocritical do chastise one and defend the other..
indeed from my POV the facebook aquisition is better because at least it means Sanzaru will still be making VR titles, and either officially or via Revive everyone can still play their games on a PC VR headset (unless they go quest only of course)
where as if stormlands 2 for instance was PS4VR only then PCVR loses out completely (that is assuming Insomniac stick with making VR games..... they could do a "Playfull" and go non VR.