Meta, let me tell you what you want to do.
Zuckerberg says that you want to own the devices.
Perfect, you are the leader in the crucial technology of the future: AR and VR.
I will tell you how you could leverage this leadership to also dominate the smartphone and PC markets.
That’s it: you don’t want to build a bulky headset with smartphone hardware stuck on the front of people like Quest 1–3.
You want the smartphone hardware in your pocket, attached to a light, small headset like the Bigscreen Beyond with a cable, similar to the Apple Vision Pro’s battery setup.
Now that you have disentangled the smartphone hardware from the glasses, you should make it an actual smartphone, by putting a touch screen and a camera on it and allowing calls.
A very powerful smartphone that one can use by itself, connect to the glasses and controllers, or to a mouse and keyboard. Be sure that in this modality you have a desktop-like browser experience, and you will win most of the PC market. I should also be able to connect it to a monitor, like Samsung Dex, and have the good old desktop experience.
A single device being a smartphone, a PC, and a VR/AR headset.
Why should I buy something else?
Please Meta, make it. Crash the market.
PS: This all-in-one device should have a swappable battery. So that when I run out of juice in VR, I can just swap and charge the other, continuing the experience seamlessly.
Antonio Norelli,
owner of Oculus Go, Quest 1, 2, and 3.
