When the iPhone came out it was completely obvious how great it was. Sure there were naysayers, but they were a vocal minority predicting Apple’s impending bankruptcy while the product sold in droves. It took only a few years for smartphones to be completely ubiquitous. Once people saw it, they wanted it.
VR is not the same. The first Oculus came out in 2016, and it’s been a fringe product ever since.
Can Zuckerberg truly believe he has the Next Big Thing here? Is there some sort of obligation for big companies to tout their Next Big Thing, even if they realistically know it probably won’t take over the world? Am I just wrong and we’ll all be using VR headsets instead of laptops in 5 years?
I’m just continually stunned at how committed they are to this.