Mark Zuckerberg recently expressed his views on the Apple Vision Pro during a recent meeting
According to renowned analyst Alex Heath, Mark Zuckerberg recently shared his thoughts on Apple’s latest spatial device, the Apple Vision Pro, during an internal meeting with Meta employees.
Mark Zuckerberg’s narrative about the headset undervalued its capabilities, as the CEO of the company stated, “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 and physics that our teams haven’t already explored and thought of.”
Additionally, Mark mentioned that he didn’t personally use the device, and his opinion was based on feedback from testers and information provided by Apple.
In addition to highlighting the significant price difference between Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3, Mark also emphasized that Apple and Meta have fundamentally different visions for the future. He stated, “We innovate to make sure that our products are as accessible and affordable to everyone as possible, and that is a core part of what we do. And we have sold tens of millions of Quests.“
Continuing his statement, Mark directly compared his and Apple’s vision, stating, “Our device is also about being active and doing things. By contrast, every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch by themself. I mean, that could be the vision of the future of computing, but like, it’s not the one that I want.“
It seems like Meta is taking the headset announcement easily and with calm. But don’t be mislead – Apple Vision Pro has shown how VR/AR headsets should look to the masses. Meta has real competition now.
The positive aspect here is that it appears Meta has already been working on similar features to those packed in Apple’s headset. This suggests that in their future headsets, particularly the Pro models, Meta can incorporate similar functionalities while potentially offering them at a lower cost.
Full monolouge from Mark Zuckerberg:
Apple finally announced their headset, so I want to talk about that for a second. I was really curious to see what they were gonna ship. And obviously I haven’t seen it yet, so I’ll learn more as we get to play with it and see what happens and how people use it.
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 and 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.
But look, I think that their announcement really showcases the difference in the values and the vision that our companies bring to this in a way that I think is really important. We innovate to make sure that our products are as accessible and affordable to everyone as possible, and that is a core part of what we do. And we have sold tens of millions of Quests.
More importantly, our vision for the metaverse and presence is fundamentally social. It’s about people interacting in new ways and feeling closer in new ways. Our device is also about being active and doing things. By contrast, every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch by themself. I mean, that could be the vision of the future of computing, but like, it’s not the one that I want. There’s a real philosophical difference in terms of how we’re approaching this. And seeing what they put out there and how they’re going to compete just made me even more excited and in a lot of ways optimistic that what we’re doing matters and is going to succeed. But it’s going to be a fun journey.
