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Before the bandwagon jumps on "Metaverse is dead", Meta is pursuing multiple headsets, devices strategy and trying to find the right Features / Price mix. Ques
by zooq_ai 2y ago
Before the bandwagon jumps on "Metaverse is dead", Meta is pursuing multiple headsets, devices strategy and trying to find the right Features / Price mix.
Quest 2 is the most successful headset and it seem to have the perfect balance. Quest 3 although great, probably is slightly expensive for the mass market. But there will be a chatGPT moment for Metaverse in the next 5 years and Meta's strategy will pay dividends.
It's Ray-ban smart glasses is already a huge hit. Like a startup, you just have to keep iterating and I'm glad zuck is on it
- juanani 2y ago[dead]
- GaggiX 2y ago>But there will be a chatGPT moment for Metaverse in the next 5 years Honestly I doubt it. ChatGPT is a free service that is genuinely helpful. For the Metaverse you need to buy the headset and the hardware to run it for what? Wasting time in a virtual store instead of just using a UI? Using it on a worst version of VRchat?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- cut3 2y ago> It's Ray-ban smart glasses is already a huge hit. Sure, "huge hit". Anecdote but the only time Ive ever seen anyone wear one was when I interviewed at meta and one of the folks interviewing me was wearing them.
- jowday 2y agoAlso, completely anecdotal, but the only people I’ve ever seen wearing them are Facebook employees.
- throwway120385 2y agoI'm getting Google Glass flashbacks.
- FL33TW00D 2y agoHere's Nat Friedman saying he's a DAU of them: https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1796986709751759304 https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1796986709751759304
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoWell now we know at least one person uses them.
- FL33TW00D 2y agoHe's the CEO of EssilorLuxottica saying that they've sold more units of the latest version in a few months than the previous version did in 2 years. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-ray-ban-meta-glasses-have-outsold-previous-version-essilux-ceo-says-2024-07-16/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/n... These things ARE selling, the product is just early.
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoThe CEO of a company selling them says he likes them, and they are selling more quickly than a product which flopped. I am not particularly swayed by this information!
- jayrot 2y agoHope you're sitting down, because the next iPhone is going to be the Best iPhone Ever.
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoI would absolutely die of laughter if Tim Cook came on stage and said "we worked really hard and we think you will agree, this iPhone is definitely in our top 3 iPhone models ever released. It is really quite good. Seriously, its nearly as good as last year's model, which was great!"
- jowday 2y agoIf anything, what I’ve heard from friends at or adjacent to Meta is that they’re paring back metaverse ambitions and capabilities on their future devices because of the success of the Ray-Bans glasses and the relatively middling sales of the Quest 3. The Ray-Bans are also a weird anomaly since they’re leaning on the Ray-Bans designer pricing to justify a lot of the cost. If you’re already buying a pair of luxury sunglasses that cost close to $200, what’s another $100 to get the smart version?
- SoftTalker 2y agoI'm constantly losing, scratching, or breaking sunglasses. I buy them at $30 tops, not $300.
- gnadd 2y ago[flagged]
- cdchn 2y agoSounds like there is an obvious feature for having FindMy / location beacons in your smart sunglasses.
- CatWChainsaw 2y agoNot FindMy, FixMy.
- RockRobotRock 2y agoIn my experience I tend to lose my sunglasses less when they’re expensive :)
- jacobgkau 2y agoAnd I keep my sunglasses in my car's glove compartment to use when I'm driving, with the only times I wear them being then and when I'm doing physical activity (running, sports, etc). New, less physically risky use cases for sunglasses will not appear in my life just because I get a more expensive pair of them.
- hervature 2y ago> But there will be a chatGPT moment for Metaverse in the next 5 years and Meta's strategy will pay dividends. You mean lose billions within an unclear race that may ultimately lead to commodity prices like TVs?
- barbazoo 2y agoAnecdotal but of the few people that showed me their smart ray bans, 0 actually wear them, let alone use the smart functionality.
- asadotzler 2y agoAfter 10 years of building headsets and 5 years of selling them at scale Facebook has fewer than 10 million MAU on Quest. That's $30-50 BILLION spent for maybe 8-9M MAU. The Ray-bans aren't AR or VR, they're sunglasses with a built in webcam. What a joke. What a total failure and the fanboys pretending it's not. Which other products out there cost tens of billions and gave fewer than ten million monthly users?