Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey thinks Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset is great. He even describes the price as reasonable.
Palmer Luckey in an interview with podcaster Peter H. Diamandis. (Source: Screenshot YouTube)
- Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was asked his thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro in a podcast interview.
- When asked, he responded with extremely warm words for Apple.
- For Luckey, Apple glasses are “the future”.
One can complain about the simulated eyes on the front of the Apple Vision Pro. Or about the fact that you have to carry an external battery pack on your belt that only allows two hours of running time. But none other than the co-founder of Oculus, the inventor of the Oculus Rift, thinks features like these are just the ticket.
“To put it bluntly: that’s exactly how it’s done!” he said in the interview. He explicitly praised Apple’s decision not to build the battery into the headset but to outsource it in order to keep the weight on the head as low as possible. “I was a big advocate of this principle during my time at Oculus, but they decided otherwise.”
Luckey on the Vision Pro award
Interestingly, the Oculus founder describes the price of Apple glasses, which is often described as too expensive (3,500 US dollars), as the right signal. “Apple did well not to target the entry-level segment (…) When Apple introduced the Vision Pro, I retweeted a tweet I made in 2015. At the time, I wrote that before VR would become something everyone can afford, it has to become something that everyone wants, and that’s exactly what Apple is doing now.
In 2014, Meta (then Facebook) bought Oculus. Luckey left the company he co-founded in 2017.
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