. At the time, Facebook and Oculus were both rolled into a new parent company: Meta. Facing falling use at Facebook , the company had to do something, and this was the new plan.
If fully utilized, VR has the potential to reduce the amount of travel people need to do, make job training safer, and even save some lives. So, seeing a big company like Facebook bet the farm on the technology hinted that some promising things could happen in the future. One big thing that helped Meta was the Quest 3. Many of the advancements of the Quest Pro were repackaged in a cheaper headset. Higher resolution displays, clearer lenses, and a more customizable lens spacing system made for a much more realistic and pleasant user experience. I know because I ended up buying one recently. More apps and games have been trickling out that are starting to show the promise of VR, too.
Another big development was when Roblox released an app for the Meta Quest, making for the combination of two of the biggest metaverse companies. This caused a lot of kids to ask their parents for VR headsets, some of whom are probably too young to be running around virtual worlds unsupervised, but it also means that the success of both companies is now tied together — they can grow together instead of competing with each other.
But, the biggest problem the Vision Pro faces is that the experience comes with a hefty price tag: $3,500. That’s a full seven times the cost of the Meta Quest 3, which offers a pass-through experience that’s probably ⅔ as good, but with some recent updates the gap may be closing. Workspaces and other Meta apps also do a lot of what the Vision Pro can do for productivity .