1976 Apple I : Too expensive!
1984 MacIntosh : Too expensive!
1991 PowerBook : Too expensive!
1998 iMac : Too expensive!
2001 iPod : Too expensive!
2006 iMac/Macbook : Too expensive!
2007 Apple TV : Too expensive!
2007 iPhone : Too expensive!
2008 Macbook air : Too expensive!
2010 iPad : Too expensive!
2015 Watch : Too expensive!
2018 HomePod : Too expensive!
2024 Vision pro : Too expensive!
Add a sprinkle of "what does this provide vs competition" and "Apple is out of their minds! DOA!" over almost all these product stacks and you have these solid investors and thinkers that proclaimed Apple's doom for decades
Meanwhile, Apple is valuated at 2.81 Trillion USD
You don't understand products nor the market. Just like Switch predictions in 2017 around here.
"Has to focus on gaming!" - oh yeah, look where that got. How many Half Life Alyx you have to develop to move the needle? Mainstream doesn't give a fuck to control these complex games with controllers in a basement corner for your Valve Index setup. It's niche as fuck. Look, i love VR gaming, but it's completely niche. Chasing that market and that market only is a dead end. Even Meta understands this, not for nothing that Quest pro & Quest 3 are going AR. Gaming is a side project for these companies from now on.
Just like Quest pro → Quest 3 in prices over the span of a year
The non Vision pro version is probably gonna be iPhone price range and from then on, Apple will eat the market. Any headsets staying "pure" VR will be <1% niche much like Steam hardware survey headsets. Meta has a chance to compete if they hurry up with a Quest pro 2 as high end.
It's expensive now, it will plummet in price soon enough. micro-OLED production is super expensive
now.
You have headsets with micro-OLED in the 1800 nits range (too dim for pancake lenses), half resolution, no standalone chips (let alone an M2), no batteries, no inside out tracking (need Steam base station), no AR, no eye tracking and they sell for $999. Once you go high end AR you're double the price of Vision pro. Anyone not seeing where this product line is heading in 3-5 years from now, will look back to the unveiling threads and make a big "GUH".
I'm not even buying this headset with a 10 foot pole on first iteration, but not seeing the big picture of this product stack is a bit surprising from a forum of so called geeks.