Re:Zuckerberg wants Meta’s AR glasses to be ‘an iPhone momen...
by GenerocUsername on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:23PM
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False. Meta bought the best selling headset at the peak of VR fever. They didn't create anything
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Re:Zuckerberg wants Meta’s AR glasses to be ‘an iPhone momen...
by filoleg on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:56PM
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> False. Meta bought the best selling headset at the peak of VR fever.
You might want to double-check your claims before making such definitive statements.
As far as I am aware, the acquisition happened in early 2014, and Oculus Quest was released in 2019, 5 years later. Oculus Quest outsold all earlier headsets, and then Oculus Quest 2 (released a year later) outsold that. And by a giant margin.
What Oculus had at the time of the acquisition (Rift headset) was imo inferior to HTC Vive. It was the first consumer-available legit VR headset that gained some good adoption, but Vive outsold it 2-to-1.