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 $3,500 Apple headset.
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Like Zuckerberg, Bosworth also has some good things and some bad things to say about the iPhone maker’s debut “spatial computer."
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Bosworth mentions that Apple’s choice of build materials for the Vision Pro are questionable accounting for the “poor” weight distribution.
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“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.
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“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," he added.
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While the Vision Pro has some “tremendously great things” to offer including a super-high resolution screen (with little to no latency), Bosworth isn’t very impressed with how it handles motion blur.
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Bosworth noted that motion blur in Vision Pro could be distracting, particularly if you tend to look around a lot.
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The Meta CTO also took a dig at Apple’s exorbitant pricing urging people to “Save yourself $3,000.”
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“Am I being totally fair? I don’t know. I am not here to be fair. I am being honest with you," he said,
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Zuckerberg recently released an almost three and a half minute long video review of Apple’s Vision Pro headset.
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“I don’t just think that Quest is the better value, I think Quest is the better product, period," Zuckerberg said.
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