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Could this be a cautionary tale for another recently turned VR-maker tech giant?
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As much as I hate it because it’s Meta, they’re the only ones still currently pushing mainstream VR tech forwards, and I like VR. I’d love to buy a headset from any other manufacturer, but there’s no affordable alternative. I’m in a weird position here. I don’t want them to fail out of the VR market because things would stagnate hard, but I also don’t want them to succeed in their vision of it.
they’re the only ones still currently pushing mainstream VR tech forwards
The cost of the Apple headset is insane. I’m really curious to see how well it sells, but Apple product sales are always hard to predict.
I feel like the cost alone pushes it out of the mainstream tech category. It’s not even in the same product class as the Quest Pro, let alone the Quest 2 or 3. Even if it sells well, I don’t think it will bring more development to affordable headsets.
Agreed
Apple’s apparently also targeting cheaper headsets but not at first. I’m real curious what those would price out at and what kind of compromises that will come with compared to the higher end stuff they’re making.
It’s cheap for what it is. High resolution (lower than Vision Pro) VR headsets are already expensive. Just the display from someone else is probably $2K. No one else can pass through the real world in full resolution/color with hyper low latency, either, and all that’s before being a full fledged computer of capability.
It’s not the mass market version, but the pricing is aggressive for the hardware.
PlayStation just launched PSVR2, I’m considering buying one
I gotta say, I forgot that existed but I’m glad you pointed that out! At least there’s another out there if things go south with Meta. I don’t have a PlayStation myself, but it’s great there would still be someone out there innovating.
It’ll be hilarious in several years time when they’ve completely abandoned the entire VR multiverse concept, when they have to explain to people what their company name means.
“Well you see, our king lordship decided that we must set fire to several hundred billion dollars, there was nothing else we could do with it, so we did.”
multiverse concept
Goddammit! All this time we thought Zuck was a robot, and he turned out to be Kang.
Well, this is too bad. I don’t like Meta but I love my Quest 2. Sounds like features for the Quest 3 have had their scope reduced to cut costs.
I’m hopeful the Quest 3 will do well because the VR space is really cool, and there are not any real competitors at this price point.
Friendship ended with the metaverse, now the fediverse is my best friend.
XD
“A conservative estimate for the value of the fediverse is 9001 trillion dollars”
Someone needs to stop me, my prophecies all come true but nobody believes me!
It’s a neat, young tech that unfortunately still hasn’t been given a fair shot (it’s being used as a bunch of get-rich-quick schemes by most). I was hoping Meta would continue to develop it and gain some integrity karma, even at least as a very small team/project. At least a lot of progress has been made this round of vr hype. Maybe in 20-30 years, another wave will happen and it’ll actually take root. I’d like to see VR actually take hold and be as cool as the sci-fi stuff in my lifetime, or even proof of concept before I die, knowing that it’ll probably happen.