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Comment by onepointsixC

3 years ago

Meta Quest Pro has much of what the Apple device offers while providing controllers for a significantly better gaming experience for $2500 cheaper. Considering the strongest consistent use case of VR thus far has been gaming, Apple has a huge miss IMO.

But not all of us want to use VR for gaming. I want to use it to replace the monitors on my desk.

No device yet has been able to do it. Vision Pro is the closest so far, but we'll know in 9 months for real.

Apple will never own the type of old-school, enthusiast gaming that VR gaming has roots in (of course they do quite well in mobile gamin, but that’s something you do with a device you already own; you don’t buy a device for it). If the former type of gaming is the only application, they didn’t really have a shot to miss with. So, they are adding a bunch of extra functionality that isn’t directly related to gaming. Of course their device will not provide the best bang-for-the-buck in gaming.

Vision Pro supports game controllers. It was in the demo.

> Meta Quest Pro has much of what the Apple device offers

No it doesn’t. Parent said there were ‘plenty’. Perhaps there is another on your the list that does?

  • Dualshock 5 is very differnt from VR controllers.

    • It’s standard for gaming.

      If you are going to claim that Apple’s VR system needs to use meta’s style if controller in order to be successful at gaming, I think that’s short sighted.

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