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Meta VR Glasses

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  1. fidotron · · focus · HN ↗
    Looks like superb hardware, and contrary to many others the use cases this is designed for look actually worth it. "AVP but lighter and cheaper" or "looks designed for trains or planes" . . . well, obviously.

    The key problem is it's Meta. People don't even trust other people near them to use Meta hardware, and the way they dealt with Oculus users was just grimy. From basically any other company this would be a very welcome device. Zuckerberg needs to fix the company first, because there's no such thing as a killer product good enough to overcome this hurdle.

    1. ai-x · · focus · HN ↗
      People said the same thing about Meta Muse.

      HN constantly under-estimate how much the mass forgives a company as long as they release a cool product (barring a few holdouts that really don't matter to 3B DAU company)

      1. eli · · focus · HN ↗
        Is Muse popular?
        1. nl · · focus · HN ↗
          Extremely. It's been top of the App store charts since it came out in the US.
          1. croes · · focus · HN ↗
            That means nothing, see

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49662990">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49662990

            &gt; I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots

            1. singularity2001 · · focus · HN ↗
              don&#x27;t trust this we&#x27;ve spent hundreds of dollars without any effect whatsoever in the statistics
              1. croes · · focus · HN ↗
                My point is not the money spend but that bots not only create traffic on web sites but also app stores
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