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Re:Zuckerberg unveils Meta’s newest VR headset days before A... by Firmwarrior on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:27AM (#36152505)
Pretty wild that someone has the audacity to claim that $500 is expensive in this case. It's basically a high end tablet with a lot of low-volume custom parts. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd need to charge $1000 with no loss in sales to break even on just the headset's hardware+firmware (never mind the "metaverse" stuff they're dumping money into)
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Re:Zuckerberg unveils Meta’s newest VR headset days before A... by Zemtomo on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:10PM (#36153233)
Even if it is not a success in any business context of meta, they still sold millions of it.

Economy of scale is definitely a thing here.

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Re:Zuckerberg unveils Meta’s newest VR headset days before A... by Firmwarrior on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:27PM (#36157572)
hmm, I didn't realize they'd sold around 20 million of these things

You aren't going to get iPhone/Samsung Galaxy-level scale effects out of that kind of volume, but it's enough that they might be able to break even within 50% over public BOM estimates

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Re:Zuckerberg unveils Meta’s newest VR headset days before A... by Zemtomo on Friday June 02, 2023 @08:47AM (#36164356)
Yes it surprises me too.

And it even makes it weirder to me that I never felt seeing or hearing much about those headsets. Are they all sleeping in some boxes put away?

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