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Can VR glasses save VR?
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Meta’s VR Glasses aren’t the glasses the industry promised. They might be better.
Meta’s VR Glasses aren’t the glasses the industry promised. They might be better.
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I’m pretty sure I won’t be buying the $1,299 Meta VR Glasses. That’s too rich for my blood in today’s economy, and my feelings about Meta are… conflicted. But I want you to understand that Meta just changed the game. We’ve had glasses, but we’ve never had glasses like this.
The Meta VR Glasses are not an opaque VR headset. They are not a pair of transparent AR glasses. They might be the best of both. After playing with the Meta VR Glasses, Valve’s Steam Frame, the Apple Vision Pro, and the Google / Xreal Aura back to back, I think they’re the first design that could convince regular people to give VR a chance.
It’s not because they look like glasses. It’s not just that they’re five times lighter than a typical headset at around 100 grams. It’s certainly not the $1,300 price tag, even if that’s much less than a $3,700 Vision Pro.