Some important context is that this tweet comes from John Carmack, "Consulting CTO" for Oculus/Meta VR.
Oculus fairly recently got a lot of criticism for laying out its plan to introduce an advertising API inside of VR experiences. Many of the early-adopting developers actually pulled out of the pilot because the backlash was so strong.
He chose to bolt himself onto the Facebook monster, so he loses all respect from me for that. You can be the smartest person in the world and still do stupid and harmful things.
The world would be better if he did nothing, rather than making the Oculus platform more competitive. I think I'd rather see VR struggle to survive than Facebook have a de-facto stranglehold on the ecosystem.
I'd have much preferred something other than Facebook, but it can't be denied that VR needed a lot of money to be anywhere near decent.
I've got all the Oculus hardware starting from the DK1.
* DK1 is 100% a proof of concept. It's not suitable for anything but really primitive gaming.
* DK2 is the bare minimum acceptable to play games with. You have to squint at critical information in Elite. That was using a Galaxy Note 4 screen, from a high end, expensive phone.
The modern tech is absolutely critical to giving it an enjoyable experience. Good controllers, excellent tracking without having to place cameras around carefully, high enough resolution that games can actually show text to the player.
I couldn't find any recent news about this -- the most recent article I found is Oculus' blog post from June 2021. So I don't believe this particular tweet is providing cover for any recent decision, but the implication you are making (that Carmack has to provide cover for the advertising efforts of Meta) is probably accurate.
Oculus fairly recently got a lot of criticism for laying out its plan to introduce an advertising API inside of VR experiences. Many of the early-adopting developers actually pulled out of the pilot because the backlash was so strong.