Abstract: The foreign bigwig Zuckerberg began to live, and he released **, by belittling Vision Pro and fruit fans, and praising the Quest 3 headset.
The smell of the New Year is gradually dissipating, just as some people are still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year, the foreign bigwig Zuckerberg began to live, he recently released**, by belittling Vision Pro and fruit fans, to praise the Quest 3 headset. In this issue's sharp review, we will talk about Zuckerberg's approach.
After finishing the vision pro, the fruit powder
It may be last year's "efficient year", Meta performed well, and the soaring profits and stock price made the company's founder Zuckerberg feel good, so he had the confidence to shoot at rival Apple.
On February 12, Zuckerberg posted a short ** on Instagram, making a crazy disparagement of Apple's Vision Pro, and praising how good his Quest 3 is, he listed nine advantages of Quest 3 over Vision Pro, as follows:
The Quest 3 headset costs one-seventh of the price of the Vision Pro (note: the Quest 3 costs $499 and the Vision Pro costs $3,499).
The Quest 3 headset delivers high-quality passthrough on large screens, just like the Vision Pro
The Quest 3 headset is lighter, more comfortable to wear, and weighs 120 grams less. (Note: The Quest 3 weighs 515 grams and the Vision Pro weighs between 600 grams and 650 grams).
Users can walk around with the Quest 3 headset without wires getting in the way. (Note: The Quest 3 has a built-in battery, and the Vision Pro has an external battery).
The field of view is wider and the screen is brighter.
When the wearer moves, the Vision Pro exhibits motion blur. The quest is much clearer.
Precision controllers and hand tracking are available, with Quest hand tracking being more precise. (Note: Vision Pro is not officially equipped with a controller).
Quest's library of immersive content goes even deeper.
You can youtube or play Xbox games. (Note: Vision Pro does not currently support native apps such as YouTube).
Through the above nine advantages, Zuckerberg came to the conclusion that Meta Quest 3 is not only stronger than Vision Pro in terms of cost performance, but also better than the latter in terms of user experience, that is, Quest 3 comprehensively beats or crushes Vision Pro.
On February 16, local time in the United States, Zuckerberg was interviewed by the podcast Morning Brew Daily and explained why he posted ** by stepping on Vision Pro and praising Quest 3. Zuckerberg said that some of the ** people think that the Vision Pro is far ahead of the Quest 3, which makes him unhappy
The reports I saw were all like this: "Vision Pro is an Apple product and it's such an expensive product, so it must be a better quality product, even though a lot of people are saying, hey, no, you should go for the Quest 3 because it's better deals".
What I'm trying to say is that just because it's seven times more expensive doesn't mean it's better. If you look at it on a case-by-case basis, the Quest 3 performs really well. I'm proud of the work we do. So, I just wanted to get that out of the way. ”
Perhaps because Zuckerberg didn't enjoy disparaging Vision Pro, he turned the focus of further conversation to Apple's loyal users, that is, fruit fans, he noted
"Whenever someone dares to question whether Apple will be the leader of a new category, some fruit fans are unhappy. But the reality is that every generation of computers has both open and closed models.
Throughout the history of computing, each generation of major products has had an open model that is more partnership-oriented and more beneficial to developers. In closed mode, Apple is usually the only one, and it basically just integrates all of its things together. ”
From Vision Pro to fruit fans, Zuckerberg is basically in a state of full firepower against Apple, and I don't know how Apple CEO Tim Cook will feel after watching it.
The Vision Pro and Quest 3 are half a pound and eight taels
If the author is asked to use one word to evaluate the two devices of Vision Pro and Quest 3, it will be "half a catty and eight taels", there is no superiority or inferiority, they are all half-hung products.
Apple's Vision Pro is strong in the heaping of materials and will create a concept, and weak in the wearing experience.
The first is the stockpile,The head circumference and eye shield of the Vision Pro are designed in fabric, the outer body is a piece of glass, the bezel is made of aluminum alloy, and the side straps support the adjustment of tightness. The Vision Pro is equipped with Apple M2 and R1 chips, equipped with a high-transparency Micro-OLED display, binocular resolution up to 8K, 23 million screen pixels, a built-in 3D camera, which can shoot depth** and 3D**, with 12 sensors, 5 cameras, 6 microphones, users can use gestures, eyes or voice operation control, equipped with VisionOS.
Cook directly used the MAC computer-level M2 chip for the Vision Pro, and the performance directly threw the Snapdragon XR2 Gen2 carried on the Quest3 out of ten streets, plus other configurations, so that the cost of the Vision Pro was as high as 1509 US dollars (about 10862 yuan), Zuckerberg once said that if the Quest series has such a high cost budget, Meta can also make products similar to Vision Pro.
The ultra-high price of $3499 also made some people move the idea of "white prostitution", some up owners, they just wanted to attract attention and attract traffic, and then returned the goods after the event, only using Vision Pro as a free rental item. An Apple store employee exasperated, "So far, only those bastard youtubers (it's just the f***ing YouTubers so far) have been returned." ”
Next is to build the conceptIn June last year, Apple unveiled its first spatial computing device, Vision Pro, at WWDC, and Apple CEO Tim Cook described it this way:
The advent of Vision Pro marks the beginning of a new era in computing technology. Just as the Mac brought us into the era of personal computing, the iPhone brought us into the era of mobile computing, and the Vision Pro brought us into the era of spatial computing.
Building on Apple's decades of innovation, Vision Pro is the first of its kind, bringing revolutionary new input systems and thousands of innovative technologies. It provides a great experience for users and exciting new opportunities for developers. ”
Cook packaged the XR device Vision Pro with the concept of spatial computing, but still couldn't escape Musk's ridicule, saying that instead of spending $3,500 on it, it would be better to spend $20 on a pack of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and they can all experience AR.
Finally, there is the wearing experienceVision Pro has amazing visual clarity and a creative "spatial computing" experience with stacking materials, but its wearing experience is really bad, and some people have reported that wearing Vision Pro for a long time feels like a pressure on the head, and after wearing it for 30 minutes, it also leaves a red indentation on the forehead.
As a headset, the Vision Pro's wearing experience is hard enough to be satisfying. After the launch of Vision Pro, Musk also had an experience, and he said that Vision Pro did not shock me. However, in his opinion, the iPhone 1 is not very good. All things considered, it is less useful than other alternatives, but when it comes to the iPhone 3 it is undoubtedly the best "smartphone".
In other words, Vision Pro is only a half-finished product at the moment. Of course, the Quest 3 is not much better, and its disadvantage lies in the application ecology.
The pitiful lack of applications for the Quest 3 is obvious to all, and the game is relatively rich in content, which Zuckerberg naturally understands, so he asked his executives to ask Google for help, and the results were disappointing.
In an Instagram AMA Q&A, Meta CTO Bosworth pointed out Quest's lack of support for 2D apps and said it wasn't Meta's responsibility. "We hope Google will bring their Play Store app store to the VR platform," he noted. We asked them, but they didn't want to. So it's up to the developer. ”
Compared to the lack of apps that Quest has to face, Vision Pro has no shortage of app support. Apple's head of marketing, Greg Joswiak, revealed that Vision Pro now has 1,000+ native VisionOS apps, and the number of compatible iOS and iPad apps has increased to 1.5 million. At the time of the Vision Pro's launch, Apple said there were more than 600 apps available for the headset, so the number of apps has increased by more than 400 in the weeks since the Vision Pro went on sale.
There is no doubt that the application ecology has become Meta's "Achilles heel", Google's non-cooperation, so that Meta does not have an advantage in the competition with Apple's Vision Pro, and the Quest 3 has been reduced to a game console, lacking more practicality.
Write at the end
If you want to say who can finally have the last laugh in the competition between Meta and Apple, the author thinks it is Apple. The first generation of Vision Pro is very fierce, resulting in high cost and high selling price, but the existence of Moore's Law, the iteration of hardware, Zuckerberg said that the nine advantages of Quest 3 compared to Vision Pro will no longer exist, and at that time, the Nth generation of Vision Pro with high quality and low price (note: relative to the first generation of Vision Pro) will be able to turn over.
For Zuckerberg, the top priority is to establish the Quest app ecosystem as soon as possible, so that its devices get rid of the role of game consoles, and the establishment of an app ecosystem is not an overnight thing, think about the 2005 Google acquisition of the Android operating system, to 2016, which lasted nearly 11 years, the number of Android applications is nearly 1.2 million, and Apple iOS is on par.
The operating system of Quest is based on Android magic change, so Zuckerberg's ability to build an application ecology is weaker than Apple's, and without Google's support, even if Zuckerberg is given ten years, he may not be able to get the application ecology. Moreover, once Apple enters the XR market, it will accelerate the development of the XR field, so there is not much time left for Meta and Zuckerberg to build an application ecosystem.
Text: Flamingo (this article ** is ** on the Internet).
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