My prediction is that eye contact will be the “killer app” of VR. I keep waiting for someone to release an affordable headset that would let you make eye contact with your family/colleagues.
But here we are, 4 generations in and Meta isn’t doing it.
Kinda bizarre, but the future can wait I guess. Hopefully the Quest Pro will prove out the use case at least for the business market.
It honestly feels like Zuckerberg is chasing Apple here (which is a weird thing to say when Apple hasn't even released anything). He doesn't want to lose the race to true AR. But at the same time they have absolutely failed to release anything at all compelling in the mixed reality space for the Quest Pro. It all feels very unfocused / uncoordinated.
I think they would have been far better off dropping mixed reality, putting basic eye tracking in and selling it at $399.