As I understand it, they haven't open-sourced it, they've just licensed it to other hardware manufacturers. But they did open-source their Llama 3 AI model
I think Meta realises it is the only way to survive. In pretty much every market, there seems to be space for only two players Desktop - Apple + Windows Phones - Apple + Android Serviers - Windows + Linux Cars - Tesla + [either Apple Car Play or Android Auto but probably not both] Tablets - iPads (Apple) + [either Microsoft Surface or Android but probably not both, possibly neither, possibly someone completely different] Web frameworks - React (Meta + Microsoft) + Angular (Google) AI frameworks - Tensor (Google) + Torch (Meta) AI hardware - Tensor (Google) + Cuda (NVidia) CPU hardware - AMD64 (AMD + Intel) + AArch64 (Apple + Qualcom + Google + Amazon + Microsoft + Samsung + others)
Meta's decision to open source the Meta Quest operating system is a smart move because as you say it potentially increases the number of developers who will produce apps for Meta Quest and any other VR headset running that OS. Apple Vision Pro is going to end up like the M series iPad Pro, excellent hardware crippled by its walled garden OS and ecosystem. Meta Quest 3 may not be as technologically advanced as the Apple Vision Pro, but it already supports more use cases than Apple's product and at one seventh of the Apple Vision Pro's price, it suddenly becomes an incredibly attractive alternative.
@@anoopasokanveliyath my point is basically everything is based on something else. The value add is what make is new. E.g Brave browser etc. Reminds me the controversial tweet by someone who posted "Isn't Postman just a wrapper on top of Curl?"
The problem for all these AR/VR things is they don’t really bring anything compelling for the mass market , their use cases is still kinda limited, and around the world due to the world economy being in the toilet , there imo is a vast number of people that don’t have a lot of disposable income to blow on headsets . And that makes it is an even bigger hurdle for the Vision Pro to overcome given its price.
But since even the name hint it, it's the Pro device.. guess how the Vison Air or Vison SE or just simple Vison can change the price tag, with just not putting a few featueres inside, like the outside display.. but the first device can't be a device what is only capable to do half of the possible features.. this is currently just a developer toolkit, made for developers and announced on the WWDC, alias on the developer conference.. so how they should work and make app if the first device what Apple release is just a Vision Air with lower price? They will not work twice just because later even a Vision Pro with more features releasing..
Apple made a huge mistake by releasing the Apple Vision Pro at $3500. They should have released lower end sub $1000 headset first to build up a larger user base.
If I'm looking for a basic VR headset to get started, for example to use VR chat, that is inexpensive, what would people recommend? I'd rather not get second hand given it goes on your face but looking for any suggestions, even if I have to go down that route.
If Steve were here I don't think he'd be too thrilled with these clunky headsets. I would think Steve would have made the AVP 1.0 closer to the size of the Bigscreen Beyond than a Meta Quest. Ultimately I think these VR/AR headsets are going to fail to get mass adoption if they can't get them to be much smaller and cheaper.
VR for the average joe has always been a bit of a hard sell imo , I remember when Samsung first gave it a go , I had just bought my new Galaxy note 9 which also worked with Sammy’s VR headset , Samsung doesn’t usually do things by halves , in the Samsung shop they had the armchair set up with a couple of staff with the VR headset ready for a demo, the sales people looked decidedly dejected because almost no one gave a crap about VR and when offered a try , most just said no thanks and walked out of the shop with other more phone centric items. Personally I could think of other tech items I’d rather get before VR at this stage , that’s just me though.
If Pico uses this Horizon OS it would be a game changer as they tend to have better specs than the Quest and with the Quest software they could be a big player in the XR market
VR is what's keeping VR back. Even as Meta turns to open source, it could still turn out the same way when Apple open sourced their OS way back in the day - bombing because no one wanted another beige box that didn't define itself as something desirable or different. The thing that broke the damn for Apple was the iMac G3. Apple laid the foundation for decades with their advertising by focusing on fashion, by making their computers colorful and less technology oriented. I think VR has the same hurdle. Until it becomes a fashion accessory like a phone or a pair of ear buds, the masses will not buy into it. 10 more years and we could finally see meta raybans be the final form for the quest. I own all the quests btw.
It really freaks me out that people would spend 4000 dollars of hard earned money for those ridiculous looking idiotic glasses If you want to walk around looking like you came from Mars???? That 4 grand could buy a great computer or laptop rather then those ridiculous looking glasses
I know it’s popular to hate on Meta and the privacy concerns surrounding it, as well as the narrative that mark is evil. But honestly, I’m kinda rooting for Zuck now. I used to be on the other side, but lately, I’ve started feeling like we need other companies to shake things up at Apple. Apple seems to be playing it way to safe, just doing minor refreshes to existing products. It's all about shareholder profits, and not messing up their margin, The Apple Car project got scrapped, and the Apple Vision Pro is like very underwhelming for something they work for 10 years on and crazy expensive . I know it’s cliche to say but like I miss the old Apple-the one that had different products for different people, like the iPod mini era. Good-quality stuff that didn't break the bank. Right now, I've got an iPhone 12 and an M1 MacBook, and I don’t even feel the need to upgrade. I'm tired of the whole 'better camera, faster chips' routine. How about they surprise us with something like a more affordable Apple Vision, or maybe even an electric bicycle? Or idk something that gets us really pumped for the future, right now The future's looking kinda dull, and I can't handle another camera upgrade and a bigger screen
Actually, canning the Apple car was the right move at this time I think , the world is over supplied with cars , and no matter how good your car is, it would be a really hard sell , Apple could always pick it up down the road if the car scene and the world economy ever gets out of the toilet again.
@@mikldude9376it just makes very little sense for a company like Apple to make cars to begin with. They're already doing carplay, which can be expanded upon and monetized in new ways. Partnerships with manufacturers for special carplay options or integration. (Which I seem to recall that they've recently announced will be a thing, but.i forget)
@@OutdoorPOV how relevant to you are ads that you see on iphone? I'm an android user. I'm assuming you're an ios user. I've just been so surprised about how Google knows so much about what I want to see. I'm wondering if that's something that you can notice in day to day if you switch over to ios. Looking to do so anyways as it's pretty ubiquitous where I live and it would help me out to have an iPhone anyways.... not that there are ads in android, but I'm talking about Google adsense ads and stuff. I'm wondering (more like assuming) that they're scraping data somehow from my phone and just know everything about me. What's funny is that before I had a diagnosis for my medical condition, Google was recommending me treatments for it. I didn't even know what was wrong, but Google narrowed it down to 2 things and bombarded me. Pretty scary, considering I only Google a few things here and there.
@@hobosnake1Do you realise personalised ads are a choice on Google Account settings? You can turn off a slider, delete currently saved interests, reset Ad ID and start over.
I love the meta quest 3 i only care about games. I can also afford a meta quest lol. Would love to see the quest 4 get a boost in specs. They need 16 gigs of ram.
@@mikldude9376 thats the point, wearing that is impractical, but having AR and VR abilities at any point of your day is quite useful, especially for engineering, entertainment and Art.
This is dumb. Meta is losing money on their headset. How would anybody compete with that when the only money they make comes from the hardware? Apple is the only player in almost any market with the ability do custom silicon, so competitors to meta won’t be able to differentiate with specs. Unless Meta does profit sharing on software sales there is only the small premium market for an already niche product. I feel like this might have something to do with the China market, but why would they not take what they want and strip out Meta’s storefront, so Meta loses out on any money from their work. No clue what Meta’s thinking.
Interesting observation…apple got lost in their own success imo…I really appreciate the quality apple workmanship , but… devs are going to flood and inundate the meta OS shell. When it comes to things like a phone, watch, AirTags, and a iPad… yeah I suppose I can live with iOS…But other than that my MacBook runs Debian …and as for a VR headset…I think I will pass on Vision OS… VR is too big for the “walled garden” and that is one thing Meta got right…
