Days after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg ripped apart the Vision Pro on social media, company CTO Andrew Bosworth has joined the bandwagon to review the USD3,500 Apple headset. Like Zuckerberg, Bosworth also has some good things and some bad things to say about the iPhone maker’s debut “spatial computer” but his analysis seems a bit more critical and nuanced. Basically, the whole of top-level Meta is coming together to prove how great a value proposition their competing product, the Meta Quest 3 is, for the majority of people.
Right out of the gate, Bosworth points out what’s undeniably the Vision Pro’s biggest area of concern— its weight. The headset weighs quite a bit, relative to say the Meta Quest 3 which is almost 120 grams lighter. Bosworth mentions that Apple’s choice of build materials for the Vision Pro are also questionable accounting for the “poor” weight distribution.
“As soon as I put the headset on, I can see what trade-offs they made and why they made them. And, perhaps definitionally, those aren’t the trade-offs I would have made,” he said during a Q&A session on Instagram, adding “It’s part of their design language, the metal and the glass. But metal and glass are not premium materials when they’re on your face. When they’re in your hand, they feel nice and they react nicely. But on your face, lightness is the premium material.”
While the Vision Pro has some “tremendously great things” to offer including a super-high resolution screen (with little to no latency) which is ideal for a sense of immersion while watching content, Bosworth isn’t very impressed with how it handles motion blur which could be distracting, particularly if you tend to look around a lot.
The Meta CTO obviously takes a dig at Apple’s exorbitant pricing urging people to “Save yourself $3,000,” [and buy the Meta Quest 3 maybe instead] adding “Am I being totally fair? I don’t know. I am not here to be fair. I am being honest with you.”
Zuckerberg recently released an almost three and a half minute long video review of Apple’s Vision Pro headset. You can read more about it here, but this one statement sums it up nicely — “I don’t just think that Quest is the better value, I think Quest is the better product, period.”
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