Since i started to use my Pico 4 as a sort of poor mans Vision Pro i really want XR to take off. Even though the GUI is kinda shit, that Snapdragon 865 is severely underpowered, the passthrough is abysmal, the heat and fan noise directly in front of my face is annoying and my UX is cobbled together with sideloaded Android apps(of which only three can be open at the same time). Its still fucking awesome. NGL i really want to start putting some money aside for a future XR device with a decent soc, good passthrough, better OS, highres screens, etc.
But as an old timey nerd its hard to be excited about tech giants trying to get their foot into the next possibly big market to be the dominant force with their walled gardens so they can force ads directly into our eyeballs.
But even with that in mind. If Apple wouldnt be Apple and made a few sensible changes i would easily drop 2000$ on a standalone headset. A desktop grade OS should be integrated and accessible by the XR frontend so you can actually get some shit done without the need for an additional macbook. Drop the 'premium' materials and design first approach. Make it as light and comfortable as possible. Yeah and thats about it already? Sure, it would be lovely if they wouldnt upsell ram and storage for five times what they are actually worth. But that would be too much to ask.