Why would we need to take VR headsets out into the world? Is this an issue for the fridges killer app of keeping things cold?
Mass adoption of VR headsets is not the goal of the industry I don't think, it has a niche use case that only it can achieve and that is plenty enough. It's just one tool.
If ever there were to be a technology that replaces smartphones it might be AR, but I doubt that too.
Perhaps that's where my thinking gets unstuck, in my mind Meta is adjacent to the existing VR industry. Their goals don't seem to align with what VR has so far tried to achieve. I know how silly that sounds, considering they're so closely related, but it's almost an uncanny valley representation of what VR already is.
Mass adoption of VR headsets is not the goal of the industry I don't think, it has a niche use case that only it can achieve and that is plenty enough. It's just one tool.
If ever there were to be a technology that replaces smartphones it might be AR, but I doubt that too.