The most recent battleground in Apple and Meta’s feud is their work on digital and augmented actuality.
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Apple launched its Imaginative and prescient Professional headset in February, and Zuckerberg was fast to supply his critique of the competitor to Meta’s Quest headsets.
“I’ve to say that earlier than this, I anticipated that Quest can be the higher worth for most individuals because it’s actually good and like seven instances inexpensive, however after utilizing [Vision Pro] I do not simply suppose that Quest is the higher worth, it is the higher product interval,” Zuckerberg mentioned in a video on Threads. “They’ve completely different strengths, however general Quest is best for the overwhelming majority of issues that individuals use combined actuality for.”
Zuckerberg says many individuals “assumed that Imaginative and prescient Professional can be greater high quality as a result of it is Apple and it prices $3,000 extra.”
“I do know that some fanboys get upset each time anybody dares to query if Apple’s going to be the chief in a brand new class,” he mentioned. “However the actuality is that each technology of computing has an open and a closed mannequin. And yeah, in cell, Apple’s closed mannequin received, but it surely’s not at all times that approach.”
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth has additionally taken pictures at Apple over its Imaginative and prescient Professional.
“As quickly as I put the headset on, I can see what trade-offs they made and why they made them. And, maybe definitionally, these aren’t the trade-offs I’d have made,” he mentioned.
Bosworth known as the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s movement blur “actually distracting” and mentioned the headset was “very uncomfortable to make use of.”
