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    4 hours ago

    The Index and the Quest are entirely different things.

    The index is a monitor with sensors attached to it.

    The Quest is a proprietary PC with an ecosystem, DRM and billion dollar company backing.

    Rooting isn’t open source They don’t have anything to do with each other other than the fact that you don’t need to root open source devices. They lock us out of root because they don’t want us to control our own devices, They want us to use their stores, they’re walled gardens, and their support for everything which is very un-open source.

    My point behind touting an open source mobile VR device would be that it would not need to be rooted.

    I looked at the hardware you mentioned and while the open stuff looks very nice it looks very not available for anyone to purchase. Do you expect any of that hardware to be more available soon?