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Does anyone else sense a huge disconnect here, or is it just me? When the iPhone came out it was completely obvious how great it was. Sure there were naysayers
by apeace 4y ago
Does anyone else sense a huge disconnect here, or is it just me?
When the iPhone came out it was completely obvious how great it was. Sure there were naysayers, but they were a vocal minority predicting Apple’s impending bankruptcy while the product sold in droves. It took only a few years for smartphones to be completely ubiquitous. Once people saw it, they wanted it.
VR is not the same. The first Oculus came out in 2016, and it’s been a fringe product ever since.
Can Zuckerberg truly believe he has the Next Big Thing here? Is there some sort of obligation for big companies to tout their Next Big Thing, even if they realistically know it probably won’t take over the world? Am I just wrong and we’ll all be using VR headsets instead of laptops in 5 years?
I’m just continually stunned at how committed they are to this.
- nradov 4y agoIt's a risk mitigation initiative. There is a non-zero chance that VR headsets will end up being a disruptive innovation that gradually supplants some existing product categories. In case that actually happens, all the major tech companies want to get ahead of that trend instead of letting some unknown startup take the market.
- rockemsockem 4y agoImportantly they say Cambria will support full passthrough and augmented/mixed reality. It's not just virtual reality.
- msh 4y agoI guess that the analogy works better (in favor of VR) if it is compared to where cellphones was in the 80'ties and not the iphone. But I agree I don't think it's 5 years out, it's minimum a decade or two.