Mark Zuckerberg shared his thoughts about the Vision Pro headset with Meta employees, and he's not a fan of the future Apple's VR/AR headset hints at.
As The Verge reports, a company-wide meeting yesterday saw Meta tease its Twitter alternative, but Zuckerberg decided to talk about the Vision Pro headset as well. He concluded that it was "good news" Apple hasn't discovered any "magical solutions," while highlighting the high cost and need for a battery because it "requires so much energy."
Zuckerberg also pointed out that every demo Apple showed of the Vision Pro had a person sitting alone on a sofa. He commented, "I mean, that could be the vision of the future of computing, but like, it’s not the one that I want." In contrast, he believes Meta's VR headsets are focused on people interacting and "feeling closer in new ways."
Overall, Zuckerberg said he is "even more excited and in a lot of ways optimistic that what we’re doing matters and is going to succeed." That's most likely due to the fact the Meta Quest 3 headset is seven-times cheaper than the Vision Pro, will launch ahead of Apple's headset in the fall this year, and seems to be targeting a very different area of VR applications.
Zuckerberg's optimism will be tempered somewhat by the fact Meta employees working on the Metaverse don't like using VR headsets. And if Apple's vision of the VR future turns out to be the right one, Meta could end up being forced to rethink the Metaverse and drop the Touch Plus controllers from future versions of the Quest headset.