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I'd be skeptical. The author of these charts is a staunch Oculus fan, and seems to spend his time doing little else than posting positive Oculus stories to reddit.

I don't think he's a shill, just over-committed. At one point the the founder of Oculus Palmer Luckey even called him out as an "insufferable fanboy". [1]

I don't say this just be a detractor or mean-spirited, but I would advise caution as there's likely bias in these charts.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4gfpjk/palmer_lucke...


The contents of that chart are purely factual. There's very little room for bias unless you want to nitpick on trivial things like what shade of green he used for the font on the price figures.


The bias the parent refers to is implicit, I believe, in the selection of information to convey. That is, the choice of which columns and rows to include in the graph in the first place.

They could have included a row for "Open platform for games", or "Has finger detection", etc. Alternatively, they could have included columns for Vive, or Vive+Wireless, and so on.

This kind of implicit bias is very difficult to avoid, however; in general, viewers of ANY online media should already be assuming the viewpoints they're consuming are biased in the first place.

In particular, since the source is the /r/oculus subreddit, anyone viewing this information there (1) already assumes this implicit bias, and (2) is likely to share it.


This particular chart is comprised only of Oculus products. The bias is much more evident when comparing a Vive or other third-party headset. Little emphasis is put on their advantages - only disadvantages.

If you're familiar with P-Hacking, then you know how even "factual information" can be misrepresented.


Where can you find bias in this image and why even bring this up? I commend this over-committed person for providing us with up to date information.

Just when I thought I couldn't think less of Palmer Luckey...


For me, the biggest draws are:

1. No wires (easy to move around, can use anywhere)

2. No setup (no cameras to attach, drivers to install, etc)

3. 2 hands and positional tracking

I have a Vive, but having to setup all the components and deal with the wires is pretty annoying. I also have a daydream, but having to pop in my phone, drain my battery and install all that crap on my phone is also annoying. This is the perfect middle ground. Now I'm curious to see if Google announces something similar in a few weeks.




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