Comment by GeekyBear
3 years ago
> I think this is more in the "Pro Display XDR" overpriced territory
It's the same price as Microsoft's Hololens 2, but the tech looks much more impressive, and Microsoft seems to have laid off most of the Hololens development team.
And how many people have Hololens? Vs How many people have a Meta Quest 2?
Again, the other things named above were just "Apple tax" expensive, i.e an extra 50% more. This is almost an order of magnitude more expensive. Doesn't Meta Quest go for around 400$, 350$ on sale? Literally a tenth of the price.
I'm not saying they're the same product, it's hard to convince something to pay 10x for a product.
How many times did Microsoft iterate on and improve the hardware before laying off the Hololens team and giving up? Once. The answer is once.
Apple is a company that releases a new platform and keeps iterating on it for year after year.
This version of Apple's hardware isn't intended to be the cheaper mass market consumer version of the tech. That will come later in what has been referred to as Apple Glass.