Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
I’m sure I sound like an old man yelling at clouds but I don’t get why there’s such a push for these platforms.<p>I got an email from Apple about their event this month, and it said “Code New Worlds”, which in my mind seems to confirm they’re actually going ahead with an AR&#x2F;VR device. Why?<p>Where is the market? How many of these things sell? What do people actually do with them?<p>I like the idea of an AR experience for enabling better work environments, even as a programmer, but my sense is that these technologies are very far in the future still. These will be toys for a while yet.<p>So what’s the motivation to get into this space? What is the opportunity that Apple sees, for example?<p>Part of me is optimistic that there’s some incredible application around the corner and it’ll be an exciting moment in the digital space. The other part of me feels like we’re really grasping here, and it’s just a toy (albeit a pretty cool one).