{"id":79276,"date":"2023-06-09T22:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T05:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/zuckerberg-gives-his-first-reaction-to-apples-vision-pro\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T22:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T05:20:40","slug":"zuckerberg-gives-his-first-reaction-to-apples-vision-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/zuckerberg-gives-his-first-reaction-to-apples-vision-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Gives His First Reaction to Apple\u2019s Vision Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn\u2019t been shy about addressing the elephant in the room: with Apple Vision Pro, the Cupertino tech giant is officially entering a market that, up until now, Meta has basically owned. In a meeting with Meta employees, Zuckerberg thinks that while Apple Vision Pro \u201ccould be the vision of the future of computing [\u2026] it\u2019s not the one that I want\u201d<\/p>\n

As reported by The Verge<\/a>, <\/em>Zuckerberg seems very confident in the company\u2019s XR offerings, and is less impressed with Apple\u2019s design tradeoffs. During a companywide meeting, Zuckerberg said that with Vision Pro, Appe has \u201cno kind of magical solutions\u201d and that they haven\u2019t bypassed \u201cany of the constraints on laws of physics that our teams haven\u2019t already explored and thought of.\u201d He calls that \u201cthe good news.\u201d<\/p>\n

Largely, Zuckerberg says Apple is making some telling design tradeoffs, as its higher resolution displays, advanced software, and external battery comes alongside a $3,500 price tag\u2014or seven times more than Meta\u2019s upcoming Quest 3 mixed reality standalone.<\/p>\n

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But it\u2019s also about ethos. Zuckerberg says the companies\u2019 respective headsets represent a divide in company philosophy, as Apple products are typically developed to appeal to high income consumers. \u201cWe 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, our vision for the metaverse and presence is fundamentally social. It\u2019s about people interacting in new ways and feeling closer in new ways,\u201d Zuckerberg continued. \u201cOur 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\u2019s not the one that I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Meta chief echoed some of these statements on\u00a0the Lex Fridman podcast<\/a> where he spoke about his opinions on Apple Vision Pro, noting that Apple\u2019s mixed reality headset offers a \u201ccertain level of validation for the category.\u201d Because Vision Pro will cost so much though, Zuckerberg maintains Quest 3 will overall benefit as people inevitably gravitate to towards the cheaper, more consumer-friendly option.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Zuckerberg\u2019s full statement, sourced from the companywide address: <\/p>\n

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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\u2019t seen it yet, so I\u2019ll learn more as we get to play with it and see what happens and how people use it.<\/p>\n

From what I\u2019ve seen initially, I\u2019d say the good news is that there\u2019s no kind of magical solutions that they have to any of the constraints on laws of physics that our teams haven\u2019t 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\u2019re going for.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

More importantly, our vision for the metaverse and presence is fundamentally social. It\u2019s 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\u2019s not the one that I want. There\u2019s a real philosophical difference in terms of how we\u2019re approaching this. And seeing what they put out there and how they\u2019re going to compete just made me even more excited and in a lot of ways optimistic that what we\u2019re doing matters and is going to succeed. But it\u2019s going to be a fun journey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn\u2019t been shy about addressing the elephant in the room: with Apple Vision Pro, the Cupertino tech giant is officially entering a market that, up until now, Meta has basically owned. In a meeting with Meta employees, Zuckerberg thinks that while Apple Vision Pro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":79277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,3813,3794,1919,2095,3825,3826,736,741,432,2399],"tags":[1915,3811,3791,1911,2091,3823,3824,729,734,428,2396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}