The Meta institution has announced the caller Quest Pro, the 3rd instrumentality successful its bid of standalone virtual world headsets. After 2 Quest models, dedicated to the wide nationalist and equipped with high-performance hardware astatine an affordable price, the caller Quest Pro tries to refocus the merchandise scope besides towards the premium and concern area. With a terms tag of $1,500, we would surely expect a overmuch improved experience, but the much than triple terms of the Meta Quest 2 doesn’t look afloat justified.

Meta Quest Pro offers 50% much show than Quest 2

On the hardware side, the Meta Quest Pro adopts a caller Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ processor, a processor that promises 50% much show than the Meta Quest 2 released 2 years ago. It’s adjacent amended cooled, and with 12GB RAM and 256GB retention standard, it should marque a quality successful astir applications. The Quest Pro integrates some 5 outer sensors for sensing the situation and 5 sensors inside, which show facial expressions, eyes and different important elements to transpose the idiosyncratic into the virtual environment.

In presumption of the ocular prime offered, however, the Quest Pro remains connected LCD screens, arsenic opposed to OLED. These person 37% amended solution than Quest 2 (37% higher pixel density) and usage caller “pancake” benignant lenses, which are importantly smaller than the Fresnel lenses successful Quest 2, but connection 40% amended clarity. The LCD screens besides person section dimming, with 500 zones, providing 75% improved opposition and 1.3 times greater colour gamut. The lenses besides connection a 25% larger tract of presumption for much immersive experiences.

The outer cameras connected the Meta Quest Pro are present afloat colour and let the situation to beryllium displayed connected the device’s displays for those times erstwhile you request to bash thing extracurricular of VR and don’t privation to instrumentality the helmet off.

Although this instrumentality appears to beryllium good equipped for gaming successful VR, Meta presents it much arsenic a productivity computer, allowing it to tally specialized bundle specified arsenic Microsoft Office, oregon 2D and 3D instauration bundle for users. Accordingly, the exterior plan has been improved for accrued comfort, from integrating a amended lens spread accommodation system, to the grip system, which sits the instrumentality connected the user’s forehead and grips the backmost of the caput better. The areas that interaction the caput are made of soft, touchable foam.

The accessories are besides precise expensive

Also caller are the caller Meta Quest Pro Controllers, a acceptable of 2 devices equipped with precocious processors and sensors. They tin besides consciousness the situation and person a Qualcomm processor each integrated to process the data. They tin besides link to the Quest 2, for example.

meta quest pro controllers

However, the prices are highly high. For 50% much show and somewhat amended screens, the Quest Pro sells for $1,500, compared to $400 for the Quest 2. Both devices see the corresponding controllers successful the package. Separately, the Quest Pro controllers outgo $300 US, portion Meta doesn’t connection overmuch successful the mode of bundled accessories beyond a charging dock.

Accessories specified arsenic headphones, a protective carrying pouch, oregon a strategy that wholly blocks extracurricular airy tin outgo betwixt $50 and $120 extra. For a instrumentality that has a artillery beingness of astir 2 hours, these prices aren’t precise justifiable, particularly erstwhile you see that successful 2 years, show has accrued by lone 50%, with interior components inactive akin to a smartphone.

Meta Quest Pro launches connected October 25.