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Samsung's VR Headset Looks a Lot Like Apple Vision Pro
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Shouldn’t we see what it’s priced like first?
A lot of people bought Samsung Odyssey VR headsets, including myself
Emulating the West is part of modern Asian culture. Starting with the Japanese in the 19th century (whose new emperor ditched centuries-old isolationism in favour of a wide embrace of Western culture - even considering replacing the local language with English at some point), the trend progressively spread to other countries and it's no surprise, nowadays, to see the likes of Samsung shamelessly copying Apple's AirPods Pro or Vision Pro.
That being said, Asian countries and corporations have, each at its own pace, evolved from blindly copying the West to a more selective approach, from reverse engineering to advanced R&D, from cheap low quality to cutting-edge luxury. A good example of this is how the "Made in Japan" brand evolved from the 1960s to the 1990s.
That being said, Asian countries and corporations have, each at its own pace, evolved from blindly copying the West to a more selective approach, from reverse engineering to advanced R&D, from cheap low quality to cutting-edge luxury. A good example of this is how the "Made in Japan" brand evolved from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Considering Google’s track record on platform commitment I don’t think so.
I mean they don’t literally have a magical photocopier. Cost of having a strategy of just copying whatever competition does.
Which platform are you talking about?
They are very committed to android as well as android automotive OS
Google has started and stopped various projects over the years but entire platforms I don’t think they’ve been particularly flaky about.
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Samsung doesn’t have better scalability than Apple.
On a device like that, price is absolutely everything. I’ve read how great the AVP is and many people would love to have one. That said, lots of people would love to have a Ferrari too but don’t.
Wouldn't it be something if Google or Samsung actually delivered a killer app for this thing.
I've been using my avp daily again since the update with the widescreen Mac virtual display. The regular software for avp still needs a lot of refining it has too many quirks with warnings and the persistent labels and handlebars.
I agree. But they are after a populist market for those who just wanna hate anything apple. Who knew there was a market for that? They must have been hangin’ around MacRumors.
Put a 👎🏻 for those who agree.
Clearly Apple and Samsung and Google have a different take on the future of AR/VR devices than you do. Me, I think AVP is a great v1 intro and I think that selling.a few hundred thousand at ~$3,500 each was very good.
Anyone who calls AVP a "flop" fails to grasp the idea of new tech intro. Also [IMO] selling a few hundred thousand US$3,500 devices is hardly a flop.
Android Automotive =\= Android Auto. Several cars exist that have Android Automotive and CarPlay, but no Android Auto…
But the main objection is any notion that Android will “kill” Apple. It will not. It will gain a larger market share, but that is not “killing”. Killing means someone dies, and Apple consistently has a small but profitable market share, because they have a majority of people with money. Which, and I know this is an unpopular opinion, happens to coincide with more educated people.
Samsung makes good hardware with good specs, but they have no vision, fantasy or innovation capabilities.
They are still playing the same copycat game. Kinda sad.
They are still playing the same copycat game. Kinda sad.
Which is why the price barrier is super irrelevant at this point. Even people who can afford it, and owns it, don’t use it. Which means it doesn’t matter if it costs ten bucks, because the use case hasn’t been proven yet. And that will NOT come from Samsung.
Apple’s competition is not copycats like Samsung. Apple’s competition is Meta, who have actually made a product in this space that people are using and seemingly happy with. And other future entities that we haven’t seen yet. I cannot think of one single product category where Samsung has shown the validity of a use case. Their strategy is to pick up existing, more or less proven use cases, and do it cheaper and with better “performance” specifically on the parameters that are most effective on the showroom floor (I’m avoiding the word “quality” on purpose here).
This is also why it is in no way urgent or paramount that Apple leads in this space, currently. There is zero evidence that this segment (VR) will ever become even remotely as relevant as the smartphone. AR similar to Meta glasses may be a different story, but it’s still so early days that Apple can easily move into that segment when and if the market proves valuable. I think Apple did 100% the right thing with putting a “bells and whistles” product on the market to learn from, and then they will have tons of data and experience to build more focused products in the future. Even if those products are nothing like the current product. Imagine Apple creates a simple pair of AR glasses as an iPhone accessory, without VisionOS. They will be very well positioned to do that now, with the experience they just gathered.
Wrong, but the majority of the customers will never realize it because of our throwaway society: Samsung makes poor hardware with good specs, not good hardware with good specs. Other than that, you are right. Samsung’s most important skill is to make a cheap product seem like quality, when it is in fact just very selective performance optimisation.
(This goes for their consumer division. Samsung is s big company, and parts of their semiconductor business do provide quality products, many of which don’t go into their own consumer products).
This has been Samsungs strategy long before iPhone. iPhone just changed who they copied.
Going through my brain, I can come up with one product only, where Samsung made a product that shifted consumer behaviour, and that is the Frame TV range.