"John Carmack Discusses Meta's VR Approach: Advantage Enables High-End Headsets, Could Hinder Software Development, Warns Against Expecting Cheaper VR Alternatives"

John Carmack on X: "Meta Horizon OS Meta already sells the Quest systems basically at production cost, and just ignores the development costs, so don’t expect this to result in cheaper VR headsets from other companies with Quest equivalent capabilities. Even if the other companies have greater…" / X

PostConversationMeta Horizon OS Meta already sells the Quest systems basically at production cost, and just ignores the development costs, so don’t expect this to result in cheaper VR headsets from other companies with Quest equivalent capabilities. Even if the other companies have greater efficiency, they can’t compete with that. What it CAN do is enable a variety of high end “boutique” headsets, as you get with Varjo / Pimax / Bigscreen on SteamVR. Push on resolution, push on field of view, pu...