Mark Zuckerberg gave the Apple Vision Pro a try and was not impressed. Instead, he believes that Meta’s Quest 3 headset is superior. This is not surprising, considering Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Meta, so it’s natural for him to prefer their product.
Regardless, if you’re interested in hearing Mark’s thoughts on Apple’s Vision Pro, here they are.
In case you couldn’t watch, the main point is this. The Quest 3 is seven times less expensive, but it’s not just better value than the Vision Pro, it’s “a better product, period”. “Overall, Quest is better for the vast majority of things that people use mixed reality for”, Zuckerberg says.
If you missed the text at the top, the entire video is shot with the Quest 3’s Mixed Reality Passthrough. He also says the Quest is much more comfortable, with no wires to get in the way when you move around, the field-of-view is wider and the screen is brighter.
Quest is also “a lot crisper” since the Vision Pro apparently has some motion blur. Both products support hand tracking and Zuckerberg thinks the Quest’s is a little bit better, but Apple’s eye tracking “is really nice” so Meta will bring back the eye tracking sensors from the Quest Pro in the future.
At the end, he takes a dig at Apple fanboys, while making it clear that in the XR space, Meta will be “the open model” like Microsoft/Windows was for computers, whereas Apple is still Apple and represents “the closed model”. It’s pretty clear which of these he thinks will come out on top.
