Meta lost $3.85 billion on the metaverse in the first quarter of 2024 alone. You know, that thing we all laughed about a couple years ago and next to no one actually uses.
It’s burned $45 billion on the metaverse since the end of 2020.
@darth I'm actually a huge VR enthusiast, like, I'm above a majority of people when it comes to VR interest, in fact it's the one reason I even still dual boot windows instead of just going full linux.
Even I wouldn't pay $3500 for a headset. It could literally perform fellatio on me and I'd still think it wasn't worth $3500. When I think $3500, I think "oh cool, New bed/I can buy a used Buick Century for myself".
Apple is cutting Vision Pro production as it fails to meet sales targets.
Analysts expected it to sell 700-800k units in 2024, but it could now be as low as 400k. A lower cost model could now be pushed beyond 2025, if it ever arrives.
Apple was never going to "save" VR.
We've spent the last decade giving Apple an unlimited runway of speculation and hype to bring a face computer to market.
Instead of doing a better job earnestly and fairly covering the tech along the way, properly educating consumers on what these things can do, now even Vision Pro can't live up to the media's imagined narrative of Apple.
Apple did nothing to earn a DECADE of media support for XR products, but think of all the projects that were criticized for not living up to some kind of imaginary Sci-Fi standard.
"Wait for gen 2 or gen 3 instead!"
Techies expect everyone else to lift off like a helicopter, but Apple gets UNLIMITED runway...
@SomeGadgetGuy my point was it is the fanbois who hype it up and the media just caters to them as they know they will get clicks. Sure some of the media is paid for by Apple, but I suspect most is the former.
At some point, you should just watch the video, instead of explaining to me what's in the video I made, and trying to correct me on what I already said.
In the video.
Now, you seem like someone who really cares about clarity and good info, but you can't really live that so long as you make assumptions on what people are talking about, and don't actually listen to what they say.
So i'm gonna go ahead and mute this thread now, but hopefully you come around and we can chat some time.
It's kind of upsetting that Apple called their #VR headset, oh wait excuse me, their "spatial computer" (🙄) the Vision Pro when Apple Eyephone was, like, RIGHT THERE.
Coucou, je profite de tout juste avoir mis mon casque VR en vente pour vous le proposer :neocat_heart:
Je suis prêt à vous faire une ristourne de -25% si vous venez de Fedi :fediverse:
PLOT TWIST !
Your vision blurs and white text appears in front of your eyes saying Game Over.
You remove the goggles, realizing you were still in a demo from the first time you tried the Oculus Rift back in 2014. Seeing a pixelated game followed by a realistic dystopian world when you removed the in-game headset was just a marketing gimmick in the demo and the passage of time was just an illusion.