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Apple's Vision Pro
- ▶ 11:22 Benedict Evans The Oculus people wanted was a games device.
Vision Pro, two weeks on
- ▶ 8:08 Benedict Evans Now, if you're doing VR, then it's a spectrum right back from the rift in 10 years ago, nine, nine, 10 years ago, longer.
- ▶ 26:27 Benedict Evans Um, and, um, they bought Oculus, and they bought a bunch of other stuff, so they spent like 35, maybe forty billion dollars on this stuff, and they're not done yet.
- ▶ 39:55 Benedict Evans So you would just, and it may be that like the original VR was Foothill One, the Oculus Rift is Foothill Two, the MetaQuest, the MetaVision Pro, sorry, the MetaVision Pro Quest, whatever you want to call it.
Apple Vision
- ▶ 3:54 Benedict Evans And so this interesting, interesting actually with this, the one thing they didn't talk about is fitness, which is interesting because VR fitness is the one thing that's other than games sort of work for Oculus.
- ▶ 6:15 Benedict Evans So the default for Oculus and for every other VR device, and that's partly because of where they came from and what was possible 10 years ago, the default for them is you put on the headset and you're somewhere else.
- ▶ 15:03 Benedict Evans You know, the Oculus comes out and, you know, Johnny and Steve say, oh, let's kind of pack something together and see what it looks like.
The Meta reality
- ▶ 4:03 Benedict Evans Oculus was this very kind of geeky, but also very narrow thing.
Apple's metronome
- ▶ 29:16 Benedict Evans I mean, that's where Oculus still is.
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 25:47 Benedict Evans And I don't know why putting Oculus, you know, putting again, putting, um, fortnight in VR might make it better, but the reason it's a phenomena wouldn't change.
Why do we care about games?
- ▶ 9:22 Benedict Evans And certainly that's why Mark Zuckerberg bought Oculus.
- ▶ 9:38 Benedict Evans Um, now the Facebook Oculus two, which seems to have been a hit over Christmas is 300 dollars.
- ▶ 21:01 Benedict Evans It did have a surge when the Oculus Two came out, but it did not have a surge from lockdown at all. 3 times in the scene
What the Apple and Facebook events tell us about their product cycles
- ▶ 7:58 Benedict Evans And now then they have the Oculus.
- ▶ 8:00 Benedict Evans Now this week's event, the Oculus Quest two, which is 300 dollars and is kind of a consumer product.
- ▶ 22:28 Benedict Evans And so kind of looping back around this question, they didn't buy Oculus to make a games device.