Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit out at Apple’s Vision Pro headset over the weekend, stating that the social networking agency’s Quest 3 was the superior product. The Meta Co-Founder and CEO was responding to a put up on Threads by an analyst claiming the Vision Pro was as much as 5 years forward of Meta’s providing. This is the second time that Zuckerberg has criticised Apple’s first combined actuality headset, which is priced at $3,499 (roughly Rs. 2.89 lakh) — the Quest 3 prices $499 (roughly Rs. 41,300).
Analyst Benedict Evans acknowledged in a Threads put up that Apple’s Vision Pro was “pretty much the device Meta wants to reach in 3-5 years,” including that he was “genuinely baffled” by Meta’s VR engineers claiming the headset was “basically just the same thing” because the Quest 3. Evans additionally stated that the Apple Vision Pro was the machine Meta would wish to promote in 3-5 years, whereas Apple would wish to promote its gadgets on the identical value because the Quest 3 in the identical time interval.
Zuckerberg responded to the analyst’s put up, stating that the Quest 3 was higher than the Vision Pro. “If our devices weigh as much as theirs in 3-5 years, or have the motion blur theirs has, or the lack of precision inputs, etc, then that means we’ll have regressed significantly,” the Meta CEO stated, including that Apple needed to make many compromises so as to present the next decision than the Quest 3.
Evans later instructed that the upper decision on the Vision Pro might assist the corporate supply greater than only a gaming machine, whereas Zuckerberg responded stating that three out of the highest seven apps for the Quest 3 — Horizon, VR Chat, and Rec Room — had been all social apps. He additionally stated that the Quest’s decision was “also quite good”, including {that a} increased decision mustn’t come at the price of ergonomics and movement blur.
Both the Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro are outfitted with pancake lenses — the Quest 3 has LCD shows with a decision of two,064×2,208 pixels and a 120Hz refresh price, whereas the Vision Pro has a decision of two,160×3,840 pixels with a complete of 23 million pixels, in line with Apple. The latter additionally presents each hand and eye monitoring, whereas Meta’s headset presents hand monitoring and the corporate’s Touch Plus controllers. The Quest 3 and Vision Pro weigh 513g and as much as 650g, respectively.
