Boz: Welp. It is hard to keep the lid on something this good and clearly the enthusiasm is bubbling over at Facebook. But stay tuned for more details (yes there are many more!) on Wednesday, 10am PT.
Posted Sep 14, 2020, 2:41 PM UTC
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I'll bet they announce a forthcoming version of their wireless streaming from PC. The XR2 chip is powerful enough for AI to uprez video on the fly and do it extremely well/efficiently.
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Pretty sure it's just going to provide a better/faster decode of the (bigger) compressed data stream, rather than upscaling in AI...
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Or the PC is going to do all the file downsizing (to fit the Link bandwidth) and they're just going to then send a raw feed that the Quest displays without needing to process. Would cut down on the latency (Quest decoder will still be the weak link even with XR2) and be in line with what Carmack was hoping to do with the OG Quest. This is possible on the latest Qualcomm SoCs.
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Welp. It is hard to keep the lid on something this good and clearly the enthusiasm is bubbling over at Facebook. But stay tuned for more details (yes there are many more!) on Wednesday, 10am PT.
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I agree that the 'leaks' of the last 24 hours are almost certainly staged. But fair play. If so, their PR Team has done a bang-up job - I'd go as far as to say masterful marketing - and the device so far looks genuinely exciting. They got the bad news (FB log-in) out of the way a couple of weeks prior. All very cleverly played.
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That would certainly make sense, though admittedly, even if you did want to keep something like this completely secret I could easily imagine these types of leaks happening regardless.
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Cats out the bag already buddy
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too late cats out the bag
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I think I am going back to my original thoughts that the FedEx "leak" was all a part of a cheesy "viral marketing" plan by Facebook. This all feels like cooked up excitement, and their acting is showing.
taking a page from valves playbook
leak it, makes it intersting. we all knew it was coming, its not enough info youd skip the actual facebook connect but enough to make you interested.
Well, the last 8 hours have certainly seen a massive swing in the content of discussion about facebook VR ;) If it wasn't intentional then it was at least successful.
That was exactly their plan. Announce discontinued Go. Announce required Facebook login. wait a bit. Announce 100% good stuff. Connect will now be 100% positive and generate excitement vs if they mixed in the Go & Login into connect people would have walked away with mixed feelings.
Yep... good planning.
it for sure did
The conversations I have been involved in today have been great. Genuinely passionate VR enthusiasts discussing the hardware, the potential, the possibilities, no hyperbole, no wild claims or playground insults, just good solid discussion.
A refreshing change from the last few weeks.
2020 is the year of the leak/viral marketing campaigns (PS5, XBOX, NVIDIA and now Oculus)
While that'd be fun, the account that posted this had a long history and clearly worked for fed ex, so no.
For sure it’s fake, but the leak still got me hyped lol
You mean the way Apple used to pay 'bonuses' to people to leave unreleased yet feature complete iPhones next to journalists at bars?
Then pretend to 'sue' the employee for losing the phone...but all the while pumping their bank account full of sweet sweet cash.
Gizmodo never recovered, so not were the same thing
I don't mind it, as long as the announcements are actually as exciting as that Quest 2's specs leak.
Trying to drown out the Facebook account voices.