Zuckerberg believes that Apple’s and Meta’s imaginative and prescient is completely different. (Image: Mark Zuckerberg/Instagram)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not intimidated by Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, which was revealed earlier this week at WWDC 2023.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t intimidated by Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, which was revealed earlier this week at WWDC 2023.
As reported by The Verge, Meta, being considered one of Apple’s largest rivals within the area—held an inner assembly the place Zuckerberg reassured workers that Apple’s Vision Pro doesn’t carry something new—which Meta had not already explored, and that there are not any “kind of magical solutions that they have to any of the constraints on laws of physics.”
Zuckerberg dismissed the headset off as high-end {hardware} that makes “sense for the cases that they’re going for.” He stated Apple selected to go together with a high-resolution show and highly effective internals, however this ends in the headset having an influence pack and wire hooked up to it, and referred to as it a “design trade-off.”
Meta’s imaginative and prescient is reportedly “fundamentally social,” and the corporate is specializing in making certain that they aim the mass market with inexpensive headsets that extra individuals can use. The Verge additional notes that Zuckerberg additionally acknowledged that Meta’s upcoming Quest 3 VR headset might be considerably cheaper than Apple’s $3499 Vision Pro, at simply $499—and it’ll assist the corporate attain a wider person base.
While Mark Zuckerberg might have dismissed the headset for now, it should be famous that Apple’s reveal of the Vision Pro “spatial computer” headset marks the primary main risk to Meta’s Metaverse ambitions—the place it plans on constructing a “fundamentally social” world by headsets just like the Meta Quest 3 and the higher-end Meta Quest Pro.
