Thomil's Random Ramblings

So, yeah, remember back in late December 2021, when an Oculus Quest 2 arrived on my doorstep ? That device has seen surprisingly frequent use in my household. I’ve been using it for meditation exercises, gaming, indeed, my all-time favourite, Cities: Skylines just launched for Quest 2 a month or so ago, even some movies, and I’ve been doing so on an almost daily basis. However, as generous as my employer was when he sent out the device, it wasn’t just meant as an entertainment device. Indeed, Lord Zuckerturd himself envisions the Quest 2 and the “metaverse” as a productivity environment in addition to being an entertainment space. And I know from company communications surrounding the launch of the Quest 2 at work that my employer had intended it as a collaboration & productivity tool as well.  Yeah, that clearly didn’t work out as intended! By the time the last devices arrived at their owners’ doorsteps in early 2022, work from home mandates were being lifted left right and ce...

How the hell am I even supposed to start? I didn’t even have VR on my tech radar for the foreseeable future, despite the insistence of a VR-converted friend of mine. It had simply not been on my private tech roadmap due to budgetary restrictions. I also don’t have the necessary high performance gaming PC to use it with, and none of the standalone headsets really piqued my interest. But, as things so often go, an opportunity to dip my toes into that topic almost literally dropped into my lap. You see, my current employer usually sends out a gift package containing a few goodies in the run-up to our worldwide kick-off event in January. Normally, it’s just a bit of swag but this time, among company branded socks and a t-shirt, came something else. I found out about it when my Instagram stories suddenly lit up with pictures of VR headsets. My own package took a bit longer because UPS has become mostly useless over the last couple of years but finally, on the Monday before Christmas, the pa...