Meta finally unveils the Quest Pro and its hefty price tag - Android Authority

Meta, the genitor institution of Facebook, has officially revealed its caller premium mixed world headset — the Meta Quest Pro. The headset aimed astatine workers and gamers alike volition merchantability for a whopping $1,499.

Today, Meta held its Meta Connect league wherever the institution instantly dove into its VR projects. Near the mediate of the show, the Quest Pro made its much-anticipated appearance. While it’s not the archetypal clip we’ve seen the instrumentality — idiosyncratic recovered a trial portion near successful a edifice country and posted pictures online — this is the archetypal clip it has been shown successful an authoritative capacity.

Although it’s not the successor to the Quest 2 — it’s much of a premium mentation of the existing headset — the Quest Pro offers a fig of upgrades compared to the Quest 2. In summation to a caller design, the Quest Pro comes with 10 sensors (inward and outward), caller pancake lenses and optics exertion that slimmed the headset down by 40% according to Meta, a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Plus chip, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a 90Hz refresh rate.

Also dissimilar the Quest 2, Meta has added high-definition colour AR functionality that turns the Quest Pro from conscionable being a VR instrumentality to being a mixed-reality device.

And it looks similar the headset wasn’t the lone happening to get an upgrade. The Quest Pro volition person caller controllers called the Meta Quest Touch Pro. These controllers volition diagnostic 3 cameras and a Snapdragon 662 mobile processor per controller. According to Meta, these caller additions marque it truthful the controllers tin way their position, not having to trust connected tracking cameras embedded successful the headset.

Scheduled to merchandise aboriginal this period connected October 25, customers tin statesman preordering the instrumentality today. However, $1,499 is simply a beauteous steep asking price, adjacent with the Quest 2 getting a $100 terms hike backmost successful August. In fact, the terms constituent puts the instrumentality much successful enactment with what you would expect from an endeavor VR product. For a institution trying to merchantability the thought of getting everyone into its metaverse, this peculiar merchandise whitethorn not assistance that mission.