We don’t know anything about the Quest 3, other than “better than 2”.
I seriously doubt it comes close to what Apple is doing. The price just isn’t anywhere near high enough.
I seriously doubt it comes close to what Apple is doing. The price just isn’t anywhere near high enough.
Full color passthrough from cameras and a depth sensor (better than Quest Pro), 120Hz, slightly higher resolution than Quest 2, 40% smaller (whatever that means), Snapdragon XR2 Gen2 (they claim more than twice as fast as Quest 2), pancake lenses, controllers without the tracking rings, $500.
Compared to Apple's, the main downsides are lower resolution display (also not OLED), slower, no eye tracking.
Main advantages are price, support for games/controllers (you can still use hand tracking if you just want to watch movies), and no external battery pack.
Fact is there is a laptop chip stuffed into this headset, there is a mobile soc in the oculus line.
Although I do think that facebook has sold a lot of their devices at a loss?
Apple loves their profit margins. But it’s not $3500 for fun. It’s clearly expensive to make, even if their profit margin in still baked in.
This product is inherently experimental. They are not going to be operating at the type of scale they do when it comes to iphones, macbooks, ipads, etc ...
So I do imagine that if this thing takes off and they can start putting out hundreds of thousands or millions of units they will gain more savings through scale.
I'd love to know what their initial order for launch is. It will be interesting to see how far the preorder precedes delivery as well.