It is not possible to build a light enough and cheap enough HMD to reach the mainstream. Quest did that with a $300 device that's 20% lighter and they've had 5

It is not possible to build a light enough and cheap enough HMD to reach the mainstream. Quest did that with a $300 device that's 20% lighter and they've had 5 years in market with similarly light and only slightly more expensive models and they stalled out under 10M users. Apple will not sustain investment in a low-millions of users product for 5 years and just as Meta is having it's "make or break" year for goggles, so will Apple after a few years in market with no traction. That's because these form factors cannot work. Even at half the weight, a feat that's probably a decade away, they're still a face-smashing PC held in place with straps that go around your head. There is no use cases outside of specialized industry where going into the office and donning even that light weight facial PC will be acceptable to normal people. It's a non-starter and always has been. Despite having the patents on what became the Vision Pro, Steve would have smothered that baby in the crib the day his team couldn't answer how women, half of the population, were going to deal with the caked on makeup and nastiness of that light seal after a few uses. That the Apple of today either didn't consider that, didn't care, or has the hubris to think they can force that on us is irrelevant. What matters is that Apple failed here to consider the user and seems to only have considered the competition and the stock price.