Re:Meta’s Reality Lab Prototype Hardware
by erulabs on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:38PM
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I don't disagree with them showing this off, just them avoiding making an actual product. Always be embarrassed by v1 and all that. I understand Meta has the cash to bankroll a decade of R/D (like XEROX used to), but iterating actual products actual people use is a far safer bet, and as a result the world actually gets products. "Explicitly never will be" only because of the bit I quoted and that these are two quite different products. One would imagine the final product would combine these two experimental headset's technologies.
It's not like Facebook, as a product, as some hidden away R/D project. It was iterated on in public.
Anyways, I didn't mean to poopoo the awesome work done here. I just want to actually use some of this stuff.
Those prototypes, of course, aren't going to themselves be shipping. But they are for R&D and to provide example of a nascent technology that one day should end up in a consumer product.
You absolutely can disagree with the approach of showing this too early or not trying hard enough to incorporate this into an (albeit expensive) consumer product today/soon.
But my read is Meta wants this stuff to one day be in consumer headsets. Just not there yet.