Facebook releases "Oculus Quest 2": Now is the "critical moment" for VR (4/4) | BRIDGE Technology & Startup Information
notebook-laptop(Continued from last time) Parthasarathy told me that Facebook's Oculus didn't expect the original Quest to be so popular. The product was in short supply for nearly the entire two years the device was offered, he said. According to Facebook, there have been challenges, especially in the process of producing optical components in the clean room of the company's main factory.
So Facebook made a bigger investment in its second product.
"The capacity of the factory at Quest has reached its limit, and it will take a considerable amount of time to set up another factory. If so, the production capacity of the second generation Quest will be We'd rather have invested in building it up, we had two options here: supply the original Quest or maximize our production capacity, and we literally chose the latter. So, we can continue to build more factories, but it will take months, and pre-COVID-19 for that matter. It would have been better to double our production capacity for next-generation products, which could also allow us to significantly increase our investment.”
Reference article: Special feature: "True VR first year"
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