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0 pointsNicoJuicy5y ago0 comments

I don't think most people "care" it's from Facebook, as someone who bought the Oculus Quest 2 and thought about a long time before that to buy the valve index.

The same could have been said about the chromecast.

I think price matters a lot and Apple already loses a big audience because of that ( it's not their market, i know).

By reference, the IPad is still priced reasonable cheap.

Ps. The Oculus works well with minimal setup.

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gonehome5y ago

Yeah you’re probably right.

Facebook’s other big disadvantage is that their platform (oculus) is separate from mobile and Apple’s platform (iOS) isn’t.

This makes it a lot easier for a Apple to leverage existing devices in laying platform groundwork (which they have now been doing for years).

It also makes it easier for them to leverage the phone computing for the glasses hardware similarly to how they did that for the watch.

FB doesn’t have this option really and I’m not sure how they’d do it without it. Try and put all the hardware in the headset itself? Seems less likely to be able to ship first or be as nice as what Apple will be able to do.

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