3 meters is just the max length cable the USB standard supports without requiring some sort of active repeater. So that’s probably where the particular length comes from. Which really just suggests that they didn’t put any thought or effort into the cable.
So creepy looking! Like a captured human forced to work for the aliens in an old 80’s sci fi film.
But what about if you compare it to the Varjo Aero? Close to the same resolution and FOV. Lighter and smaller than the Aero and $300 cheaper.
Is the reaction to it that the price is too much or that people were expecting this device to have a much lower price and were surprised? The reaction to the price seems worse than it was for the Varjo Aero which is why I ask.
Maybe the issue is that we weren’t previously thinking of the MeganeX as high end VR gear.
I use VR constantly. It has become very important to my social life because I’ve made a lot of friends through VRChat. The cost of even high end VR gear is beans compared to other expenses for me, and it’s easily some of the highest bang per buck of stuff I spend money on. In my situation, I’m not very price sensitive at all. I just want the best VR gear available.
Other people aren’t necessarily the same as you. Spending that much money on a VR headset may be a dumb decision for your particular personal circumstances, but that doesn’t mean it’s dumb for everyone else in the world, too.
It may actually be good for the VR industry in general if that happens. The Quest 2 caused people to think that VR gear should be cheap like game consoles. And that has done enormous damage to the VR industry turning it into a race to the bottom before the technology was anywhere near perfected. The result has been near total stagnation in VR hardware for the last 3 years. This is exactly why the aging Valve Index has still not been toppled from being king.
The VR industry desperately needs a functioning high end consumer market. And the $1500-2000 range is probably a good price point for that. That will allow for innovation which can then be refined to later appear in $400 VR gear.
Right now anything truly new in VR technology has to go directly to competing with that $400 price point. And we’ve seen the effects of that already. It simply doesn’t happen. There hasn’t been a realistic route to market for it. So instead, we’ve only been seeing refinement of VR technology that already existed on the market before the Quest 2 was released. Nothing new and risky has been able to get any traction. So VR technology has stagnated.
With the exception of smaller companies like Pimax still trying to forge forward despite the bad market conditions. The specifications of the 12K should not have seemed out of this world when it was first announced. That’s where VR technology should have been by now across the industry in general, not just Pimax. And I believe that’s where the VR industry as a whole would have been if not for Facebook buying out the leaders of the VR industry and then running it all into the ground with Zuckerberg’s mismanagement.
The formation of an effective market at the $1500-2000 price point could be the start of recovery from that. Allowing other companies to enter the space and innovate new VR technology. The customer base for VR gear at that price point is much smaller than the customer base for $400 VR gear, but it exists and is hungry.
I remain interested.