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They don’t need the average consumer to buy it. It’s practically a developer platform. It includes a bunch of parts that have never been manufactured at scale b
by fshbbdssbbgdd 3y ago
They don’t need the average consumer to buy it. It’s practically a developer platform. It includes a bunch of parts that have never been manufactured at scale before. Based on rumors, Apple is projected to produce 400k of these and already sold >200k.
- gamblor956 3y agoMicrosoft sold around the same number of Hololens and that was considered a huge market failure.
- hbn 3y agoSince the beginning? So over the span of like 7 years? And I assume a lot of those are repeat buyers since they released a few revisions. Regardless I don't really think the products are really comparable. Microsoft never really made a good example usecase for what a normal person would use a Hololens for. It was always moonshot, "construction workers will wear them to map out things for work" and "doctors will use it to assist with surgery." Apple at least has a layman utility for the VP. Whether that utility and its tradeoffs are worth the money is yet to be seen.
- gamblor956 3y agoApple hasn't established any use case for the VP beyond watching a very limited selection of movies. Anybody who can afford the VP for watching movies can afford the place and equipment to have a far superior movie-watching experience. And as many reviews have noted: the VP has a worse FOV than the Quest 2 or 3, and the same blurriness and artifact issues that the Quest 3 has. The summary consensus is that the VP is the best VR headset on the market, but not 7x its next competitor.