Bosworth: Meta Quest 3 is superior to Apple Vision Pro overall
Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth · Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO) · Mar 3, 2024 · at 1:01:46
Meta CTO Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth discusses testing Apple's Vision Pro alongside CEO Mark Zuckerberg to compare it against the Meta Quest 3.
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“I was prepared to come to market and say, we have the best value headset. Like if you want to outstanding best possible headset for the money, we've got it. It's the quest three. And I was so thrilled when I tried the AVP next to Mark, we were like, no, no, no. We actually, we think we have the actual best headset.”
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