New York (EFE).- The top executive of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, believes that the Apple Vision Pro glasses are designed for a person to use them “alone and sitting on the sofa” and present a “real philosophical difference” with the glasses of mixed reality from his company, the Quest, designed for its users to “interact” as it transmitted to its employees.
Zuckerberg, whose company has been investing in the development of the metaverse for years, referred to Apple’s new launch in a meeting with its employees held this Thursday to which various media accessed and announced that, at first glance, the Vision Pro do not offer “solutions magic” to no problem.
Apple caused a stir last Monday by presenting its new set of mixed reality glasses and headphones, which allow you to experiment with virtual and augmented reality, and which will be available in early 2024 in the United States for $3,499, a price much higher than that of the competition.
Tim Cook, the main person in charge of Apple, described the technology of the Vision Pro as something that “seems magical” and “a revolutionary product”, perceptions that the boss of Meta wanted to lower.
“From what I’ve seen initially, I would say the good news is that they don’t have any silver bullets for any of the constraints in the laws of physics that our teams haven’t already explored or thought about previously,” Zuckerberg said in a transcript. of the meeting published by The Verge.
The founder and technological executive delves into the fact that Meta’s “vision of the metaverse”, including its Quest glasses, is “fundamentally social” and seeks that people “interact” and “feel closer”, that is, that people ” be active and doing things”, something that in his opinion the Apple product does not have.
“By contrast, every demo they’ve ever shown was with a person sitting on a couch by themselves. I mean, that could be the vision of the future of computing, but, well, it’s not the one I want. There is a real philosophical difference in terms of how we are approaching this,” she added, in more direct language.
Last week, Meta announced its Meta Quest 3 set, a new Apple-like mixed reality headset that will be available later this year for a lower price of $499.99.
In this regard, Zuckerberg stressed that he wants to make products “accessible and affordable” and that Apple has opted for a “higher resolution” in the Vision Pro, with a powerful technology that raises costs “by seven” and requires “so much energy” that the product needs to be connected to a battery.
“They have compensated for that with the design and it could make sense for the cases they are looking for,” added the executive, who declared himself “excited” and “optimistic” about the future of this technology after seeing “how their rivals are going to compete” in the bitten apple company
