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If 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 becaus
by jowday 2y ago
If 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.
- theshackleford 2y agoSome of us can’t live without glasses and can’t afford to be this careless.
- Eggpants 2y agoDon’t understand the appeal being a spy cam for Facebook, but to each their own. The subsidized quest is on borrowed time if it keeps losing crazy billions a quarter as it currently does.