RE: Coincidence6 Aug 2018 16:52
I'm afraid I disagree with you Falcon.
'I see the discussion of hardware as rather fatuous to the presence of melodyVR though, as it is not this on which they are competing.'
You have lost me here. You are saying Melody is competing with Venues, and you believe it is a pointless discussion to mention there will be 4-5 other hardware providers 18 months down the line? So you believe Venues be on these 4-5 headsets and taking Melody's place offering live concerts on the other 4-5 headsets? Facebook are a hardware provider and work alongside and in collaboration with content providers, not against them.
Also they are drip feeding the content to Oculus Go, I would hardly say they are 'holding their presence in high regard' as you say. If that were the case they would have alot more of the 600 artists content available on the Go. The Go is the first attempt at cracking the mainstream market for VR, so Melody timed their release alongside the Go. What reasons are you saying they are holding Facebook in such high regard?
I don't think Venues is direct competition to what MelodyVR is offering and I don't think Facebook will dominate the future market. There is also nothing for them to as you put it, relinquish, because they are third in total VR headset sales to date, behind HTC and Sony.