Last Updated: March 11, 2024, 12:01 IST
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(*3*)Apple’s premium headset faces new grilling from Zuckerberg
The Meta chief was fast to refute a consumer who claimed the product continues to be years behind what Apple had created. Here’s what he stated.
Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has termed the newest Apple Vision Pro as a worse product when in comparison with his firm’s Quest 3 on social media. Apple launched their newest Augmented Reality machine final month on February 2. The reducing-edge options of the product despatched shockwaves around the globe.
Yet, the product has seemingly did not impress the Facebook CEO. Replying to a put up on Instagram Threads that claimed Facebook’s product was nonetheless years behind what Apple had created, Zuckerberg stated that the Vision Pro solely had higher decision. “Their resolution is higher, but they paid for that with many other product tradeoffs that make their device worse in most ways. That’s not what we aspire to,” he wrote.
In the identical put up, Zuckerberg goes on to focus on what he feels are the shortcomings in Apple’s newest product. He says, “I don’t think we’re saying our devices are the same. We’re saying Quest is better. If our devices weigh as much as theirs in 3-5 years, or have the motion blur they have, or the lack of precision inputs, etc, then that means we’ll have regressed significantly.”
This isn’t the primary time we’ve seen Mark Zuckerberg draw a comparability between the Meta Quest 3 and the Apple Vision Pro. Last month the Facebook co-founder uploaded a video on Instagram the place he introduced his tackle Apple’s newest blended-actuality product. He underscored a number of factors in favour of Facebook’s machine claiming that the Quest is best for the overwhelming majority of the individuals.
In the video, Zuckerberg claimed that Quest 3 has a greater cross by means of seize and it may even have a number of home windows open directly. He centered on the consolation side as effectively, saying that the Quest has no wires to get in the way in which and is relatively lighter.
He additionally talked about how the Meta product has a wider area of view and brighter screens. Zuckerberg additional talked about how Apple used movement blur when individuals transfer round however the Quest stays crisp in such moments. He talked about that their product has precision controllers together with higher monitoring which permits a nicer gaming expertise. The Facebook CEO concluded his record by saying {that a} consumer may play Xbox video games and watch YouTube natively on the Quest.
Apple’s Vision Pro launched at a hefty price ticket of $3499 (Rs 2.89 lakh) whereas, Facebook’s Meta Quest 3 is available in loads cheaper at $499 (Rs 41,260).
