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Comment by seydor | Hacker News Reader

quest 2 is the most interesting gadget i got the past decade. honestly space rockets are ok at current tech , but too much work just to see the blue planet from above, everything else looks pretty much the same as a clear night sky

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I agree (for quest 2 being the most interesting gadget in this space), quest 2 sold 10s of millions of devices and arguably came closest to making VR mainstream although they have much more ground to cover. Would be interesting to see the sales figures for their upcoming quest 3 , if it can sell as much or more units than quest 2 , I think there is a chance all this investment would be worth it. Ofcourse a cheaper consumer apple vision headset could easily come in and eat metas lunch.

Edit: copies-> devices

I think Meta is still taking a loss on Quest device sales. So even if the sell a bunch of Q3s it might not be profitable for them (though I, hoping otherwise because I like the product and want to see it keep developing). The trick for Quest is to someday make meta money via a healthy market.

I’m not really helpful here: I buy the hardware but only use a couple of apps (FirXR and BestSaber), I use them a lot, but I haven’t found anything else that I really want to buy into yet (I’ve bought other apps but they just sit unused). Whatever loss they are taking on hardware for me they aren’t making back. (But At least FitXR is a subscription now)

I feel the same. Refocusing resources from space to earth seems like the magnanimous thing to be doing with extra billions.

Anything off earth that needs exploring can be dome remotely.

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