- Mark Zuckerberg has been an outspoken critic of Apple's Vision Pro.
- In a Friday post on Threads, he once again scrapped his VR headset.
- Zack said if Meta's Quest ends up looking like Vision Pro in five years, “we'll be way behind.”
Mark Zuckerberg continues to criticize Apple's Vision Pro.
In a Friday post on Threads, Meta's CEO exchanged messages with Benedict Evans, a partner at Mosaic Ventures, pointing out the “trade-offs” of Apple's VR headset, saying that in his view: . The company's $3,500 product is inferior to Meta's $500 competitor, Quest.
“Vision Pro has a lot of limitations, but I'm really baffled that Meta VR's engineers are claiming it's 'basically the same thing' as Quest,” Evans said. wrote, prompting the first reaction. “Apple sells most of the devices that Meta wants to achieve within three to five years. Quest sells at a price that Apple wants to achieve within three to five years.”
That wasn't enough for Zack.
“I don't think you're saying the devices are the same,” he replied. “We're saying Quest is better. In three to five years, our devices will weigh as much as theirs, we'll have motion blur, we won't have accurate input. If there is a lack of that, it means we are going backwards significantly.”
Zuckerberg added: “Yes, you'll get higher resolution, but at the cost of that you'll have trade-offs with a lot of other products, and the quality of the device will be worse in most respects. That's not what we want. It's not about being there,” he added.
Representatives for Meta and Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.
Apple sold more than 200,000 Vision Pro units since the headset became available for pre-order in January, while Meta sold 20 million Quest units between its debut in 2019 and February last year. Sold. Meta's fourth-quarter 2023 financial results show that the company's Reality Lab division's sales exceeded $1 billion for the first time, which Meta attributed to “a strong holiday season at Quest.” .
Evans and Zuckerberg continued the thread, discussing the pros and cons of higher resolution for Apple's devices, with Zuck ultimately pointing out that Apple is trading higher resolution for better ergonomics and motion blur. The choice was not a “clear victory,” he said, especially “in the following cases.” The Quest's resolution is also quite good. ”
Friday's social media post was just the latest in a series of harsh comments Zuckerberg has made about Apple's Vision Pro. In a scathing review on Instagram, he thoroughly criticized the device on everything from price to specs, and criticized the headset in an internal meeting, saying that Apple's vision for his VR headset was “I It’s not what you want,” he told Meta employees.
