The movie experience is available on MUCH cheaper headsets though. Sure, it's cool...but what feature really makes it worth so much aside from it having been made by Apple?
No cheaper headset has these movies available in 4K HDR 3D with optional HFR. That has simply not existed for the home market till now.
No cheaper headset has the same native streaming apps capable of delivering 4k streams.
No cheaper headset has the color accuracy and resolution.
You might as well make the same argument about someone upgrading from a 720p TV to a 4k one.
Remember, implementation is often more important than just a feature on paper. The iPhone killed off cheaper devices that did everything it did because it did the core things better. The same goes for the iPod and the iPad.
Anyone who compares features without an eye for implementation is missing the forest for the trees.
HDR is missing and the resolution and color accuracy is lower but you can buy 6 Meta Quest 3s for the price. I don't think Apple has ever shipped a product with a bigger price discrepancy to it's competitors than AVP. It's not moderately more expensive and better but massively more expensive.
Yes you can technically do each of those things in isolation , but you literally have no way to access these mainstream movies as 4K 3D before the Vision Pro, because they were not available. You could choose one or the other, not both.
and it does not matter if I can buy 7 meta quest 3s for the price. All 7 would not be able to do the things the Vision Pro enables.
Maybe it doesn’t make financial sense to you, I don’t really care, because that is subjective. But let’s not be deceitful by trying to disregard the delta in quality as meaningless either.
And again, I will refer back to my point: Implementation matters more than just technical ability. Stop doing paper comparisons to soothe an ego.
The fact that these companies have their services on Vision Pro and nothing else is a result of implementation
It really doesn’t matter if the Quest can do something by jumping through hoops. Yeah you can rip your blu-rays, and then load them on, futz with compression etc. meanwhile a Vision Pro user can click one app and have it right there without any effort.
And there's really nothing stopping Disney or whomever from bringing 4K 3D movies to Quest. Many of the porn companies have 8K 180 degree 3D streams compatible with Quest already. It's nothing unique to the AVP.