How much energy is what is effectively a piece of performance art allowed to use? These are local models running on, presumably, consumer hardware. Do you have the same qualms about people using the same hardware and energy to play video games, livestream, or encode videos?

I must admit I forgot about the 3S. The same idea still applies, though. It’s only affordable because of the spying. Plus it’s got a lower resolution and fresnel lenses like the Quest 2, but that’s probably not as big an issue as people make it out to be.

That’s true, but your question is about buying another thing that’s more privacy-respecting than the thing you already have, so I’m not sure what your point is.

Wow, the structure of that article is infuriating to me as a reader. And the site keeps thinking that my horizontal scrolling in the code views means I want to swipe to a different article.

All VR is expensive still. Meta quest only goes as low as 650 USD because they subsidize it by spying on you so much.