I'm suddenly kinda glad I still haven't committed to VR. At some point Oculus was a prima contender for my money, but that's now clearly a no-go. Them being owned by Facebook was the main thing that held me back. Turns out that intuition was correct.

It's increasingly obvious that buying hardware from a cloud company is a terrible idea. Google also has a tendency to brick IoT hardware. I think it may only be safe to buy hardware from pure hardware companies, but most of those would also love to become cloud companies.