Meta Announces Quest Pro VR Headset With a Metaverse Focus - ExtremeTech

Almost a twelvemonth aft Meta teased its high-end Cambria headset, the instrumentality has been afloat unveiled arsenic the Meta Quest Pro. Unlike the Quest 2, the caller headset is intended for enactment alternatively than gaming, with precocious hardware for tracking facial expressions and full-color video passthrough. You’ll wage for each those precocious features, though. The Quest Pro retails for a staggering $1,500, and you tin spot an bid close now.

The Meta Quest Pro appears unchanged from erstwhile we past saw it leaked. Whereas the Quest 2 has each the hardware connected the front, the Quest Pro is much well-balanced. The artillery is successful the rear strap, and the beforehand uses thinner pancake lenses. It besides has continuous IPD accommodation to guarantee you tin find a comfy lens alignment. Those who person been capable to deterioration the Quest Pro accidental it is much comfy than the Quest 2, but the headset is wide adjacent heavier astatine 722g (about 1.6 pounds).

If you’re disquieted astir having 1.6 pounds of machine hardware perched atop your caput for agelong periods of clip — don’t be! Meta estimates the Quest Pro volition lone tally for 1-2 hours per charge, and it volition instrumentality 2 hours to recharge connected the included basal oregon via a USB-C cable. That’s going to marque it hard to get overmuch enactment done successful the metaverse, but that’s what Meta sees arsenic the usage lawsuit here. The Quest Pro besides comes with caller rechargeable controllers.

The VR gyration is underway. We've designed an all-new headset packed with precocious tech and geared for productivity, originative enactment and collaboration. This is Meta Quest Pro, disposable 10.25. Pre-order today. https://t.co/YaFHvwYHlG pic.twitter.com/cBagf0TSGp

— Meta Quest (@MetaQuestVR) October 11, 2022

You’re not paying each that wealth for a large ocular upgrade. While Meta says the Quest Pro has overmuch amended opposition and 37 percent higher pixel density, the LCD solution is astir the aforesaid arsenic the Quest 2 astatine 1800 × 1920 per oculus with the aforesaid 90Hz maximum refresh rate. One large contributor to the terms is the array of 10 cameras, 5 outward and 5 inward-facing. The outward ones way your movements and tube successful colour video overlays, and the interior ones way facial movements and expressions. Meta showed however this information feeds into the improved avatars it’s moving on.

The Quest Pro mightiness not beryllium aimed astatine gaming, but it could clasp its own. It’s the archetypal headset with the Snapdragon XR2+ chip, and it’s backed by a whopping 12GB of RAM. With the middling artillery beingness and precocious price, the Quest Pro mightiness beryllium much appealing to developers who are trying to marque contented for the burgeoning metaverse. Developers and anyone other who wants a work-centric headset tin pre-order present for $1,500 and tin expect to get their Quest Pro connected oregon astir Oct. 25.

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