george3d6

Expand? The design constraints seem very dissimilar: - weight is important, form factor isn't - any app is either doing 3d rendering or integrated into a windowing system ala a trad desktop - they are not constantly-on, they are used for long periods with breaks - they are limited by processing power not by UX - the peripherals are very complex - to the extent of complex requiring access to hand and/or controller movement at a very fine level

If anything they are similar to laptops, but overall they are their own device class.

If "similar to mobile phones" means "similar chips and batteries"... sure, but so are laptops build after 2020, besides that I don't quite understand the comparison.

> You’re not a mega company Right, I'm asking why Steam, HTC and Meta did this, which are in the top <x> tech companies by market cap and spend billions on this stuff. Totally get why a small VR device dev would not do this.

> OS, drivers and libraries for (3D) graphics up and running Right, except that I am not saying one should build a kernel, and webgl, cuda, etc are kernel dependant not OS dependant

> assurance that you still can get hardware to deploy your stuff on X years from now I am unaware of android-specific hardware features to date (linux specific, maybe, but not android) -- you can literally add any bootloader and load a linux kernel and get drivers running on most phones even, w/o android, and where "android" is necessary it's simply an artifact of the company maintaining the phone having build the drivers into their distro and not released them separately.

> You also don’t want to order a million units up front. Again, seems unrelated, I'm talking about building the VR hardware i.e. not order off the shelf and white label (unless your claim here is that meta, htc, steam etc are doing white labeling, which doesn't seem to be the case)

I'm rather confused what you are replying to.

Right, I'm saying for a VR devices, no a mobile phone. It makes perfect sense why android would be the choice for a mobile phone. I'm rather confused what you are replying to.

it's more like, in a world with thousands of oncologists that treat pancreatitis cancer, saying: You should go to one, I'm not going to recommended mine in particular, but I went to one and she cured my cancer, so maybe you should give it a shot.

Did add a quick explanation about methods at the end ... I forgot that when I say "you can read the science around this topic to see how" and provide some links to examples of papers, people don't actually do it.