Mark Zuckerberg recently responded to Apple’s Vision Pro announcement at a meeting with employees across the company. Zuckerberg said the Vision Pro doesn’t have “magic solutions” that Meta hadn’t thought of and is “seven times more expensive” than the recently announced Quest 3 headset.

Zuckerberg not impressed with Vision Pro

Meta CEO Zuckerberg is apparently unimpressed by Apple’s Vision Pro announcement. The CEO said that Apple’s device didn’t make a major breakthrough in technologies that Meta had not “already discovered” and was far from his own vision of how people would use the device. He also pointed out that Meta’s upcoming Quest 3 glasses will be much cheaper at $499 compared to the Vision Pro’s $3,499 price tag, giving Meta the ability to reach a wider user base.

“Requires cable to work”

Zuckerberg also addressed the Vision Pro’s core weakness. “They opted for a higher resolution screen and it cost seven times more with all the technology they put in to power it, and it now requires so much energy that you need a battery and a cable attached to it to use it.” used the phrases.

Zuckerberg said he’s also excited about the competition. “Seeing what they’ve come up with and how they’re going to compete made me even more excited and optimistic that in many ways what we’re doing is important and will be successful. But it’s going to be a fun journey.”

Zuckerberg: “This is not what I want”

Meta and Zuckerberg have invested billions of dollars in the metaverse and AR/VR space since 2020. The division of labor established to focus on these businesses has been posting record losses since then. However, Meta remains committed to its vision. Zuckerberg also touched on this difference in vision.

Zuckerberg said Quest is about “making people interact and feel closer in new ways,” as well as “being active and doing things.” According to Zuckerberg, what Apple exhibited was the opposite of what he wanted: “Every demo they showed was a person sitting alone in a chair. So, this may be the vision of the future of computing, but that’s not what I want.”

Meta’s Quest 3 was introduced just a few days before Vision Pro, and the price of Quest 3 was announced as $499. The price of Quest Pro was stated as $ 999. Quest 3 has a 40 percent thinner and more comfortable design than the previous generation, a higher resolution display, and up to twice the graphics performance of the Quest 2.