[gonehome]

Yeah I think it needs killer hardware before a killer app.

They're laying the platform groundwork early which makes sense since it's a bet on what's next for human computer interaction.

If they can pull the glasses off there's huge opportunity there for all sorts of things which will be really interesting and better than looking at little glass screens. Without that hardware it's super niche and I don't think has much broad use.

If anyone can pull it off when the hardware is ready it'll probably be Apple.

FB is obviously trying really hard to be there too, but I just don't think people will want it to come from FB (and forcing Oculus under their brand makes it so that it would have to be).

Magic Leap will be to whatever Apple ends up making as General Magic was to the iPhone.

The rough idea was directionally correct, but way too early with hardware that just wasn't good enough.

[NicoJuicy]

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.

[gonehome]

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.