![Mark Zuckerberg's Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 Review Zuckerberg gaming while wearing a Meta Quest virtual reality headset and a meme/tweet reacting to the video.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/048/428/zuck-apple-vision.jpg)
Mark Zuckerberg's Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 Review
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Mark Zuckerberg Apple Vision Pro and Quest Review refers to a viral video posted by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in mid-February 2024 in which he compared the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset to his own company's Quest 3 headset. Zuckerberg concluded that, in general, the Quest 3 was better than the Apple Vision Pro and he advocated for an "open model" for the new era of computing. Online, many commentators saw the video as evidence of Zuckerberg's drive to compete with Apple in the virtual reality space and as a kind of casual, low-key advertisement. The video also generated a notable amount of memes and discourse on social media as it spread.
Origin
Mark Zuckerberg posted the video review to his Instagram account on February 13th, 2024, earning over 189,000 likes, 8,800 comments and 3.9 million views in 20 hours (seen below).[1] The review came shortly after the release of the Apple Vision Pro in early February 2024. Zuckerberg's Meta had notably produced the Oculus Quest, Rift and other early VR headsets in the early 2020s and continued to innovate in the space. However, Apple's announcement in 2023 and release in 2024 of the Vision Pro was accompanied by considerable press coverage and public interest.
In the video, Zuckerberg argued that the Quest 3 was about seven times cheaper than the Apple Vision Pro and purportedly performed better for many practical tasks. While conceding that the Apple Vision Pro was higher resolution and had better graphics quality, Zuckerberg argued that Apple did this at the cost of weight, producing a headset that was uncomfortable to wear.
Spread
On February 13th, 2024, X / Twitter user @pitdesi reposted the video to X shortly after it was first posted, receiving over 69,000 likes and 9,700 reposts (seen below) in the course of 20 hours.[2]
![Fire In Him Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro He's still got fire in him, love to see it CD :](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/756/283/a92.png)
Commentators online discussed Zuckerberg's move, with some praising the video as a stroke of brilliant management and publicity, like X user Joe Weisenthal on February 14th, who called it "really good" and received over 460 likes in 10 hours (seen below, top).[3]
Others were more critical, comparing it to a famous video of then-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer dismissing the iPhone in 2007 because it was too expensive and did not have a keyboard. For example, on February 13th, 2024, X user @tina__nigro described the video as a "misstep" in a post that received over 2,900 likes in a day for criticizing Zuckerberg (seen below, bottom).[4]
![Shareholder Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart. 7h The Zuckerberg video is really good. As a shareholder of both Apple and Meta (through an S&P 500 index fund), I wish they would collude instead of compete. But still it's cool to CEO so overtly combative towards a rival.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/756/281/ef8.png)
![Misstep Tina Debove Nigro @tina__nigro 15h Like watching a 2007 Nokia fan telling you iPhone is not that advanced because you can do the same with Symbian. He could've just said nothing, taken the best things of visionOS, add eye tracking back and be a king. Now he's got his own Ballmer iPhone video. Surprising misstep Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi 20h Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro He's still got fire in him, love to see it 3:27 300 280 Shot with Quest 3 Mixed Reality Passthrough 2.9K ₁975K 口](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/756/285/ba5.png)
Others discussed Mark Zuckerberg's personality, commenting on his drive to succeed. For example, on February 14th, X user @netcapgirl (seen below, top) described Zuck as mogging, earning over 5,100 likes in five hours.[5] On the 13th, X user @levelsio (seen below, bottom) attributed Zuck's confident performance in the video to his MMA training, earning over 30,000 likes in a day.[6]
![Mogging sophie @netcapgirl : t cook, my boy. what's happening. yeah so idk if you saw this zuck video he posted comparing the quest to the vision pro. look long story short, they're saying he's mogging you. that uh, uh, he's a chad founder mogging a soy operator. i'm thinking up ways we can respond to this](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/756/288/9bb.png)
![MMA @levelsio @levelsio 18h MMA turned him from an awkward nervous wreck into a a confident fluent nice to listen to guy Power of the gym 3:27 Sheel Mohnot Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro He's still got fire in him, love to see it 292 ● @pitdesi. 20h 2.1K Shot with Quest 3 Mixed Reality Passthrough 29K ₁2.2M ... 口企](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/756/284/532.png)
Discussion of Zuckerberg's ad also took place on Reddit where a post on the /r/apple subreddit sharing the @pitdesi post from Twitter / X received over 1,600 votes and 900 comments on February 14th.[7] There and elsewhere, the review sparked discussion of a possible "headset war" or "platform war" between Meta and Apple as each company sought dominance in the market.
Various Examples
![Human While Beefing Satya Nutella @satyanutella_. 19h Zuck just acts a lot more human when beefing with someone its the fake diplomacy that gives off lizard vibes Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi. 20h Zuck on the Apple Vision Pro He's still got fire in him, love to see it 20 178 Shot with Quest 3 Mixed Reality Passthrough 447 0:01/3:37 * ₁19K : 7 口企](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/756/287/614.png)
![Emperor pragun @pragdua. 4h you could drop zuck in the 16th century and he would become emperor in a year Aravind Srinivas The most aggressive ceo on the planet 3:30 @AravSrinivas 18h 179 Shot with Quest 3 Mixed Reality Passthrough 187 ₁8.4K 口企](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/756/290/361.png)
![Cook Zuck I feel bad for you. I don't think about you at all. Jesse](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
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