I mean, there was a picture of a pair of guys wearing them out in public, eating food or something.
And, you know, that's almost $8000 (with tax) of equipment there in that cafe stuck on those heads.
Make no mistake, its not a criticism at all, I hope you enjoy your purchase.
Maybe those guys eating were watching Iron Man or something.
That's going to be entirely subjective and widely dependent on the wallet and finances of whomever you ask, and how badly they been wanting a VR/AR computer thingy.
I don’t think I’d take it out in public, except maybe on a plane or in an airport lounge.
The Quest is not early adopter, it is several generations in, and is the culmination of multiple product lines. The original Rift or the Vive were early adopter for this generation of VR headsets, excluding multiple previous attempts at the market. Factoring in the attached PC needed to drive the experience, they were expensive.
The raspberry pi was not an early adopter system. It was a consumer friendly evolution of many SBCs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer?wprov=sf...).
Lots of music equipment is very expensive. People pay thousands for synths and thousands for musical instruments.
The Yamaha GX1/707 was 60k at launch. The macintosh was over 7k in today’s money. The first HD TVs for consumers started in the 7k range.
I’m not sure how you’re defining “early adopter” but nothing you listed is early adopter. All your examples are quite late in the respective areas, when they were getting targeted for mass consumer adoption.