The problem is the pricetag. It's 10x too expensive for mass adoption and 5x too expensive for developers to bother working for it.
If it were a smartphone killer maybe you could eat that market, but smartphones are commodity products at this point. You can’t compete in that space at 3.5k usd. Even if it was good, it still will be a niche product for enthusiasts. It needs a low price and a mass market killer app.
Perhaps, but only because most gaming in general is done on smartphones.
I reckon about 80-90% of the games I own on PlayStation are either single-player or online multiplayer, which is the same as single-player in what relates to the matter at hand.
PC gaming is even less social.
Movies - same thing, also not worth the headset price.
Remote Meetings - why do I want to wear a headset that stops a video of me being recorded? The presentation they had exactly showed that people who didn't wear the headset had video of them and people wearing the headset just had an avatar card. It was the opposite of helpful. This headset makes remote meetings worse.
Porn - its an apple device - any porn will just be web based because otherwise apple won't allow it.
None of these use cases are $3500 compelling. There's no target market, and no compelling use case. It's a brand new helicopter skidoo hybrid and as impressive as it sounds its not clear why it exists yet.
> The problem is the pricetag. It's 10x too expensive for mass adoption and 5x too expensive for developers to bother working for it.
Except when you want to show the display to multiple people at the same time.
Apple's name behind it, and advertising it as a work device as well as a gaming device, would let them steal a lot of the market.
And I say that as someone who doesn't currently own any Apple products.