Meta helmets are far from mediocre and the sales prove it. The Meta Quest 3 is one of the best VR headsets currently available on the market. These are great VR headsets.
The Quest 2 has made over 20 million sales. the quest 3 seems to be selling quite well and the cheaper model will increase sales even more. The quest 3 is great for playing video games. I only use it for playing and I'm very happy with it. It's a niche market that will grow enormously in the years to come.
…Meta’s VR division also has lost 14 billion in a single year alone and it’s not impressive to sell a product at unrealistic prices competing essentially with yourself as a budget standalone headset to lose that much primarily to seed a user base for the Metaverse—an idea that isn’t critically acclaimed well executed.
The Vision Pro is also consistently more favorably reviewed across several core XR capabilities and is technically/functionally superior in several XR headset capabilities unsurprisingly as a prosumer headset vs a budget pure gaming headset.
As typical with a prosumer Apple device compared to competition, the Meta headset is only better for gaming and price of admission for mainstream budget users.
Only a good thing, even the Vision Pro’s OS capabilities are something Meta has had to mimic capabilities from but cannot with full parity because the hardware limitations of their budget headsets.
Meta headsets don’t even have HDR and other the screen capabilities nor do their headsets have eye tracking or an APU as powerful as a Vision People (laptop-class instead of Meta’s head scratching mobile-class APU other headsets).
The Vision Pro doesn’t focus on games and still has a more powerful GPU.
The Quest is medicore at playing VR games with such restrictions. It’s medicore playing non-VR games as well as not being able to play VR games anywhere close to the level of non-VR AAA games available on non-VR games available at its price.
This alone makes it a hard selling point for AAA gamers:
Buying a medicore Oculus Rift headset means you pay more than current gen consoles to play worser games at worser quality; even non-VR games are worser being played by a Meta headset rather than playing via traditional means because of their HDR-less and worser quality screens compared to a 4K TV (what current-gen consoles are designed to be primarily connected to).
You also consume premium content way worser than non-VR hardware not having premium HDR such as Dolby Vision HDR.
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