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Entering the chat is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has more at stake than perhaps anyone on earth<\/a> if Apple does to headsets what the iPhone did to smartphones. In a video posted to his Instagram account on Tuesday, Zuckerberg gives his official verdict on the Vision Pro versus his company\u2019s latest Quest 3 headset<\/a>: \u201cI don\u2019t just think that Quest is the better value, I think Quest is the better product, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While being filmed by the Quest 3\u2019s video passthrough system in his living room, Zuckerberg highlights the tradeoffs Apple made to get the fanciest display possible<\/a> into something that can be worn on your head in an acceptable form factor. He says the Quest 3 weighs 120 grams less, making it more comfortable to wear for longer. He also says it allows for greater motion due to its lack of a wired battery pack and wider field of view than the Vision Pro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He thinks the Quest\u2019s option of physical hand controllers and hand tracking for input is better, though he says he\u2019s a fan of eye tracking for some use cases and teases that it will return to future Meta headsets after debuting in the Quest Pro<\/a>. He says the Quest has a better \u201cimmersive\u201d content library than Apple, which is technically true for now, though he admits that the Vision Pro is a better entertainment device. And then there\u2019s the fact that the Quest 3 is, as Zuck says, \u201clike seven times less expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n At the end of the video, Zuckerberg thanks his team that has been building VR headsets for a very long time \u2014 a message that seems to contain a we can rest easy, folks<\/em> vibe. As I discussed with Zuckerberg recently<\/a>, it\u2019s true that Meta has a tremendous head start and will be the uncontested leader in headset sales for a while. You can even make a strong argument, as Zuckerberg does, that today, the Quest 3 is a better headset for most people than the Vision Pro. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But what Zuckerberg doesn\u2019t say in his video is that Apple has obvious hardware and developer ecosystem advantages, the latter of which takes time to rev up with a new product category like this. Meta may be breathing a sigh of relief right now. But this is a game of endurance. And the headset wars<\/a> are just beginning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n