Comment by 59percentmore

>we knew that apple would only release something when the user experience was right.

And, as has been the case since the iMac release, they can only get the user experience right when others have done the important work of getting it wrong, a lot. But your company knew this, which is why they weren't seriously pursuing a cohesive, robust UX. Why go to all that trouble when Apple will just killsteal? The VR space as we know it today is a result of this almost-15-year-long-impasse; not a matter of technological capability, but market strategy to avoid getting BTFO of a space that everyone agrees will eventually pull a Switch on desktops and smartphones.

As another user pointed out, AVP was only released to appease investors who had dealt with more than half-a-decade of leaks indicating that "something" was "coming soon". There's only so many times you can bait-and-switch them. The AVP was the compromise to show that they were working on something, without really giving competitors anything.