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[Heisenberg007]

Meta / Oculus Quest has been doing such a wonderful job with its offerings in the VR space that competitors are getting their asses kicked - especially the one that makes such stupid decisions of selling it for like $3,500.

 

[Guerilla Munch]

As much as I loathe Meta, the Quest is still the gold standard for VR. Totally wireless, no external battery needed, great for using multiple virtual screens with passthrough, and the best model is under $500.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The only thing funny about it was watching the cringe permed broccoli tops get out of their cybertrucks and look like an NPC douche-bot waving their arms around as they walked.

 

[Danknugz]

personally i never believed / bought into the hype of this device.

 

[N1tr0sOx1d3]

So they'd rather kill it than sell it at a more affordable price?

 

[mystech]

They just making shit up at this point, ain't no way Apple told suppliers to expect to build 8 million $3500 Vision Pro's. They couldn't build the 16 million mOLED panels even if they wanted to.

This. The yield on Vision Pro displays are very low. Sony could only make 900,000 mass produced displays and Apple ate the cost on defective units. With an estimated 500,000 sales, the Vision Pro has done about as well as they could expect. This was never meant to be a multi million unit top seller. They can't even make enough to fulfill that in the first place. It's a developer device to get the groundwork started for future mass market versions and hopefully this gets in the hands of some quality developers because as anyone knows who has tried the Vision Pro in person, the tech is CRAZY GOOD! It's heavy and the FOV could be better but the overall experience is unmatched.

In the hands of the right developers, we could get some really cool games out of this. Apple should have included controllers but I'm actually curious to see what developers can do with only hands.

 

[UltimaKilo]

So they'd rather kill it than sell it at a more affordable price?

Read the article... They're not killing it.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Tim is an operations guy, he can execute for profitability to perfection (and he did, just look how much money they are making on services), but he cannot create a new product. That what's Jobs was doing.

Thanks for this assessment of Tim Cook. I will now steal it as if I came up with it myself.

 

[Haint]

Meta / Oculus Quest has been doing such a wonderful job with its offerings in the VR space that competitors are getting their asses kicked - especially the one that makes such stupid decisions of selling it for like $3,500.

Ironically if Apple had taken a fraction of a percentage out of their trillion dollar cash warchest and actually funded some controllers and games the device would be doing a lot better.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Is anyone from here using this? I'm curious about their thoughts.

Yes.

Great for BIM reviews and shared (virtual) space conferencing but the same can be said for Meta and HTC standalone headsets as well. I have not gamed on it, and I have watched maybe 5 minutes of a movie on it, but I never expected to use it in those cases personally.

 

[SJRB]

Well yeah, they'll be producing the Vision Pro 2 by then.

 

[Moochi]

Comfort and easy of use and the most important element. Apple didn't innovate in that respect. Something like a higher fidelity Big Screen Beyond that looks cool and doesn't enclose your face or head or impede your vision while in full pass through is what's actually needed to grow the industry. We're probably still 5 years away from that. When we see military operators adopting tech like this instead of NVGs, we'll be a couple years away.

 

[midnightAI]

Read the article... They're not killing it.

They may well be killing 'this version' though. And we don't know for sure if there is another version going to be released (we probably can presume there will be though)

The problem is it's all well and good saying release this version cheaper, maybe they can't without making a loss and they may not be prepared to do that at the moment.

 

[UltimaKilo]

They may well be killing 'this version' though. And we don't know for sure if there is another version going to be released (we probably can presume there will be though)

The problem is it's all well and good saying release this version cheaper, maybe they can't without making a loss and they may not be prepared to do that at the moment.

And they should kill it when they release the newer version. They released a half-baked, rushed to market product just to get developers to start working on their OS. The headset is bulky and heavy, it is underpowered with an M2 (can't have multiple displays inside the headset) and the refresh rate needs to be better. On top of all that, the FOV is garbage. Feels like you're wearing a SCUBA diving mask and it doesn't even have pass-through VR! Couple that with the crazy price.

This is not a device of the future. This another device with, granted, incredible panels and a good (but not great) OS. This product segment is still years away from being a mass consumer item. I doubt we'll see anything worth buying before 2027 at the earliest, but likely not until 2029 based on what we are reading from display tech and semiconductor timelines.