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They openly stated that it was an A/B test for adoption/profitability, I'll try to find the article for you.
The original design for rift s also had much higher specs, but was replaced last minute with the lenovo outsourced thing we have today.
This also caused on of the cofounders that was deeply involved with the rift to abandon ship.


And yes don't kid yourself the data collection would've happened regardless of which concept won out at the end. Even if the a/b test part was bullshit, looking at the numbers how quest 2 performs and the lack of support for rift s makes it clear we won't be seeing any pcvr headsets from facebook in the near future.