David Mendes posted: I think awkwardness is a much larger detractor here than price. I look at Meta with Meta Quest, a much cheaper device (less than 10% of the Vision price), that has sold over 20 mil units, has a bunch of very cool apps, and still has not managed mass adoption.

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that was some real future shit

if you don't follow vr/ar tech, you really have no idea how insane that hardware is i was kind of shocked it was $3500 because that actually feels kind of cheap

David Mendes @davidmendes · 2y

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Looks amazing, but I’m interested in the use-case that justifies normal consumers to consider buying this at that price point. But maybe that’s not what they’re going for at all.

jedmund @jedmund · 2y

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This isn't a product for normal consumers. This is Apple selling a vision (pun intended) of the future, not a product. Whales and Apple fanboys will buy Gen 1 but Gen 1 isn't meant to move units.

jedmund @jedmund · 2y

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They have a serious chicken and egg problem on their hands where they need developers to help them figure out what the killer applications are and then they will build on those in future revisions of the hardware and software. This is how every Apple ecosystem has been built.

David Mendes @davidmendes · 2y

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I agree with your points but I think this category still needs to go through a big evolution. Something you put on your face is not comparable to other wearables. As it is, the value proposition needs to be gigantic to offset the awkwardness.

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I think awkwardness is a much larger detractor here than price. I look at Meta with Meta Quest, a much cheaper device (less than 10% of the Vision price), that has sold over 20 mil units, has a bunch of very cool apps, and still has not managed mass adoption.

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