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20M people bought Quests. More than x-box in the same period. I find this writing off of their sales achievements as really superficial. Whatever else you want
by zmmmmm 3y ago
20M people bought Quests. More than x-box in the same period. I find this writing off of their sales achievements as really superficial. Whatever else you want to say, they shifted units and the people buying them wanted something he was selling.
- tjpnz 3y agoThey're using it for games, but not Horizon Worlds which is arguably the vision.
- seydor 3y agoThat should be taken as a hint that people don't want VR video conferencing which is the target use for Apple's headset. TBH i don't want an avatar face, real faces in a simple Zoom call are more expressive.
- zer00eyz 3y agoI have a vision, external cameras on, on a cal with you where we are looking at hardware. "Hey Seydor, tab A isn't going into slot B here..." You being able to watch, is gonna be great. You can tell me I'm a moron or that the parts don't work or some combination. Apple probably has enough of an internal use case with product design, development and production being as long, desperate and demanding.
- nailer 3y agoWhile VR video conferencing was shown off I don’t think VR video conferencing was the target use.
- spiderice 3y ago> which is the target use for Apple's headset Just because it can do VR video conferencing doesn't mean it is THE target use case. Reducing something as complex as Apple's headset to one of its features is disingenuous. That's like claiming the target use case of iPhone is playing Candy Crush.
- elefanten 3y agoThe open secret is that the units they’ve sold get very little use. The typical user plays around with it for a few weeks and then it sits on the shelf.
- zmmmmm 3y agoyep .... and Apple has the same problem The fundamental question is what are they really useful for after the novelty wears off. It's not clear to me that Apple has done anything to change that fundamental issue.
- robbiep 3y agoWell - frankly no one has any idea about apple’s, because no one is using it. All anyone can have on Apple’s is an opinion. With Meta’s there’s evidence. Maybe it will meet the same fate. You’ve got probably the same idea as me
- NBJack 3y agoThere are some folks that got early access to the device for reviw. At least one certainly made it clear there's not much going on with it. Maybe they are trying to keep their killer app under wraps? That floating keyboard certainly isn't it.
- akmarinov 3y agoIt isn’t even out, they’ve been working with an alpha version with no appstore. Let’s see what developers come up with first.
- nailer 3y agoApple device mainly seems to be for productivity. Meta’s mainly seems to be playing VR games. If the vision pro is good for productivity, people will leave it on at work.
- bushbaba 3y agoPeople said the same about the first iPhone. Give it time. They shipped basically the foundation. The house has yet to be built.
- balls187 3y agoYes, mostly when it was Oculus and not Meta.
- dumpster_fire 3y agoHow many of those sold still get any use? I gave mine away after a month after the initial wonder wore off. My friend has like 3 separate models, and he's never played anything beyond Beat Saber. The headsets just collect dust now. But I do appreciate VR evangelists, without whom the technology wouldn't progress at all. Despite being a gimmick for now, I have to concede it's pretty cool tech.