[georgespencer]

> And so can people know if they (and their friends) will buy and use a $3k - or $1.5k - VR headset.

This is not the claim being made by the parent I responded to. Right out of the gate, OP said:

> I told my friends that the vision pro was unlikely to succeed or at least succeed culturally.

I.e. OP is specifically making a general claim about this product category, based on the usage habits of friends who are all - I would wager - using hokey Oculus/Vive-type hardware, and not Vision Pro.

It's the same rhetoric people were probably saying on alt.hackers in 1995 about paper film vs. digital cameras, and it's specious reasoning.