Meta's open AI hardware vision

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214 points GavCo | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

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jameslk ◴[15 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41851534[source]▶

That title is most definitely a swipe at OpenAI. It seems there’s a theme of two types of platform companies: the closed one that has the “premium” platform, and the open one that gets market share by commodifying the platform.

macOS vs Windows

iOS vs Android

OpenAI vs Meta AI?

Edit: Another observation is Meta seems to open things defensively. Facebook had a rich developer platform until Facebook stopped needing to grab market share. Meta’s VR platform was closed until Apple challenged them with Vision Pro. Then Meta announced open sourcing Horizon OS. I wonder if Meta will truly keep things open if they win, or if it’s more like a case of EEE?

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wkat4242 ◴[15 Oct 24 22:50 UTC] No.41853923[source]▶

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Meta's VR wasn't really a lot more closed to be honest. They've just dropped the deep review process and anyone can now publish to the main store what was previously 'app lab'. They've been heading this way for a long time, a couple years ago they didn't even have app lab.

And the OS being open isn't really that relevant unless you're a system integrator. I really doubt whether this is in response to Apple. They seem to operate in entirely different markets. I love VR but I can never buy a vision pro. It's twice what I've ever spent on my most expensive car.

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1. jameslk ◴[16 Oct 24 03:08 UTC] No.41855219[source]▶

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Oculus devices and AVP are presently in different categories from a cost perspective, but my understanding is the two companies were chasing after the same eventual market. Apple intended (intends?) on releasing a lower end device. Arguably AVP was meant as dev device anyway so devs could start building apps. And Meta was working on a higher end device until they nixed it after AVP sales tanked. Zuck himself went on a PR attack campaign about superiority of their technology vs Apple's.

> “I finally tried Apple’s Vision Pro,” Zuckerberg says. “And I have to say, before this, I expected that Quest would be the better value for most people since it’s really good and seven times less expensive but after using it, I don’t just think Quest is the better value. I think Quest is the better product period.”

The longer term horizon here seems to be that Reality Labs will release AR glasses that may have more mass appeal, and I would expect Apple will too.

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