Looks like the Quest Pro controllers' battery lasts longer than we thought - Android Central

What you request to know

• Meta enactment has confirmed that Meta Quest Touch Pro controllers tin past up to 8 hours connected a azygous complaint alternatively of the 2 hours primitively thought.
• Quest Touch Pro controllers are self-tracked via 3 cameras and a Snapdragon 662 processor wrong and don't endure from dormant zones similar erstwhile headset-tracked controllers.
• Quest Touch Pro controllers tin besides beryllium purchased separately and utilized with a Quest 2.

Three weeks ago, we got our hands connected the Meta Quest Pro for the archetypal time. While the headset was comfy and technically impressive, 1 lingering occupation seemed to person gone unfixed: artillery life. The headset is said to lone past astir 2 hours connected a azygous complaint and, subsequently, we were told the controller artillery beingness was astir the aforesaid arsenic the headset.

Thankfully, Meta enactment and a fewer developers who already person the headset person confirmed that this is not existent and that Quest Pro controllers (opens successful caller tab) tin past up to 8 hours connected a azygous charge, though 4-5 hours is apt a much communal estimate. This volition travel arsenic a immense alleviation to folks who walk agelong periods of clip successful VR, particularly folks looking to usage a Meta Quest Pro (opens successful caller tab) for work.

Meta ships the Meta Quest Pro with its accompanying Quest Touch Pro controllers oregon you tin bargain them separately and usage them connected an Oculus Quest 2 (opens successful caller tab). Quest Touch Pro controllers diagnostic 3 cameras onboard arsenic good arsenic a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor inside, making them full-fledged computers that tin self-track their ain presumption successful your room.

That means you'll nary longer acquisition dormant zones wherever tracking is mislaid erstwhile you clasp your controllers supra your caput oregon down your back. With headsets similar the Quest 2 and the upcoming PS VR2 (opens successful caller tab), the controllers that travel with those systems are tracked by the cameras connected the headset utilizing a ringing of LEDs astir the controllers.

While self-tracked controllers similar the Quest Touch Pro connection much precocious haptics and nary dormant zones, artillery beingness tin inactive beryllium a interest for immoderate folks. The controllers vessel with a dock to recharge the built-in rechargeable battery, but Quest Touch Gen 3 controllers that vessel with the Quest 2 past months connected a azygous AA battery.

If you're looking to upgrade to the Quest Pro oregon conscionable the Quest Touch Pro controllers, this is thing to decidedly support successful mind. We ideate determination volition beryllium third-party controller add-ons with other batteries successful abbreviated order, though.