Hi everyone! I am looking for VR/AR/MR standalone headsets, and there is not that much competition out there. There are headsets like the Meta Quest 3, the Pico 4 Ultra, glasses like the XReal One… Do you know if there are privacy friendly headsets or alternatives out there?

No unfortunately. Your best bet is a Valve Index + SteamVR on Linux (or Windows with O&O ShutUp10 and/or winutil if you really wanna go that route). and stuff like that so. which is expensive plus PCVR Only but in general yeah. We’ll see if Valve will shake things up. I think HTC Is fine but I’ll …

I don’t think this will ever be a product category that will ever have privacy in in mind with its development and as a product. Every company making and providing such a product/service will need the data they need to keep improving their products for all with every new version/iteration.

Not exactly true, there is the degree that it is being used or collected. eg. In terms of privacy, I wouldnt use Pico or Meta, period. HTC and Pimax maybe, but Pimax iirc is headquartered in china so it’s that and HTC While a US company i cant exactly find their privacy policy for their vive lineup…

That’s your opinion. I am thinking more long term and trying to ensure my comment will stand the test of time. Sure, people here can disagree with me and I commented knowing you all would. But given the inherent nature of the product that is a AR/VR headset, I see no future where there will be a p…

Agree to disagree then. The problem is that As much as I love AR/VR, the market is not as lucrative as it is and with only very few known players, it does become a problem which yes it means we dont have GrapheneOS equivalent of Standalone VR but clearly there isn’t losing hope which is why the bes…

I just update my comment. Sure, what you all are saying are also valid but I am thinking differently on the matter at large.

But I hope I am genuinely and completely wrong in this regard - hopefully we do get something that’s a fantastic privacy and secure product like AR/VR headset. But seeing how the world can’t even make a usable/quality equivalent of iPhoen or Pixel like mass produced Linux/Android smartphone - I fin…

Tbh when it comes to open source and DIY while not a thriving has probably been the best things for the VR Industry to move forward to more what we have here: It seems I have seen we have the Relativity, which is a SteamVR Open Source headset which is nice. ( GitHub - relativty/Relativty: An open so…

Thanks for sharing. But from my POV, I’ll believe it when I see a usable quality product that I can buy. And I am talking about Apple quality with how it feels with AR/VR. It’s a high standard. But it needs to be for AR/VR. Its the whole setting point. Until then - I don’t think my comments are in…

Standalone headsets? No. There are no privacy focused standalone headsets as of now that I am aware of. At most, maybe I’ve heard of a way to bypass the Facebook account requirement for the Quest. Maybe you could use that to make a Quest offline only. An alternative method I use, is to just use a h…

Is there any privacy friendly VR Headset?

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bitsondatadev (Brian "bits" Olsen) December 3, 2025, 2:17am 12

Any updates on standalone monotors anyone is aware of?

Is XReal in this camp? Any open source alternatives?

I don’t game but I want to replace my real monitors with virtual monitors. Mostly for browsing the web and coding with better posture.

I’m not even worried about quality provided its 720p at least. It would be cool if I could steam a KVM stream over wifi or bluetooth to a nearby laptop.

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