DEVOURED
Meta's VR Glasses Are What the Apple Vision Pro Should Have Been
Meta’s upcoming VR glasses offer a lighter, cheaper alternative to the Apple Vision Pro by offloading compute tasks to an external device.
What: Meta is preparing to launch new VR glasses next spring that trade the self-contained, heavy architecture of the Apple Vision Pro for an external computing unit, resulting in a device one-sixth the weight at one-third the price.
Why it matters: This design divergence suggests that for extended wear, offloading compute is a more viable path to mass adoption than the all-in-one headset approach Apple pioneered.
Original article
Apple's Vision Pro has not sold well, and the company has since decided to redirect resources to other products. Meta's new VR glasses use a similar design that offloads the computing engine, allowing the device to weigh one-sixth as much as the Vision Pro - at one-third of the price. This article offers a look at what the new Meta VR Glasses experience is like compared to the Vision Pro. For a device that won't launch until next Spring, the experience is surprisingly refined, and the glasses improve on the Vision Pro in several ways.
Explore all 67 articles in today's digest
Fresh dev news, AI-digested daily. Never miss a trend at devoured.fyi