Hot take:
We live in a strange dystopia where one of the biggest/most profitable Tech companies in the world announces their first new product in 9 years:
A VR headset that 99.9999% of society doesn't want, never asked for and will never buy.
Talk about tone deaf.
I'm starting the believe that the more RnD money you lose as a Tech company, the more profitable you actually become.
Bizarro World.
It's all relative. $3499 in a few mo is like 2k a few years back.
Peeps like Bill Gates were also snickering about the $599 iphone in 2008.
Personally, barring discomfort with the band and overheating, I like the 'toy".
I have the Quest, but you really sweat in it if doing something like table tennis game.
We all stopped using it after a few months.
You predict that they won't sell 10K of them, I would say 300K-500K year 1, much more later.
I think it could make a great trading station....naughty apps would follow too.