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Xylotophone t1_j8xvt6y wrote

It's a matter of perspective. If Meta had been marketing their device as a family game console, then yeah, the Quest 2 would have been a success. The problem is that Meta was banking on VR and their particular take on the 'Metaverse' concept blasting the doors wide-open to a revolutionary new market segment in VR social media technology -- They wanted to be the kingpins running the lion's share of VR-centric social infrastructure, the way Microsoft dominates in OSes and Google dominates in web searches. To that extent, they planned for their technology to achieve widespread adoption in multiple key areas in society, such as home productivity and the work place, rather than remaining primarily leisure/recreational.

So, yeah, from the perspective of Meta's absurdly high goals of 'invent what is functionally an entirely new form of internet', the Quest 2 is a failure.

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DarthBuzzard t1_j8y2p6o wrote

The Quest 2 is a success. It outperformed every expectation put onto it, even internally by Meta.

Of course it's still a niche device, but Meta wasn't expecting different until Quest 4 or 5 and beyond.

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alternate_me t1_j91ky65 wrote

I don’t really agree with this take. They explained a really long term vision, and people are upset it hasn’t happened yet, even if they were talking about 10 years into the future.

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