Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s own virtual reality Quest headsets are much cheaper than Apple Vision Pro and bring people together.
Meta co-founder Mark Zuckerberg views Apple’s Vision Pro headset as a highly costly product that provides no “magical solutions.” In a company-wide meeting and as reported by The Verge, Zuckerberg suggested he was proud that Meta’s own virtual reality Quest headsets are much cheaper and bring people together. He said that Apple’s promotional videos only showed people being isolated, which could be the reality in the future, but something he would not like to see.
In the meeting, Zuckerberg also touched up on the tech behind Vision Pro. He notes that Apple made some trade-offs to offer a metal design, while most other VR/AR headsets feature a plastic build to keep them lightweight. The Vision Pro headset does not have an in-built battery to keep the weight light, which the Meta CEO also touched upon. He stated:
“From what I’ve seen initially, I’d say the good news is that there’s no kind of magical solutions that they have to any of the constraints on laws of physics that our teams haven’t already explored and thought of. They went with a higher resolution display, and between that and all the technology they put in there to power it, it costs seven times more and now requires so much energy that now you need a battery and a wire attached to it to use it. They made that design trade-off and it might make sense for the cases that they’re going for.”