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This does not bode good for Meta Quest Pro: Meta is investigating a drastic terms simplification successful 2 markets. What are the reasons?

In the largest VR market, the USA, Meta Quest Pro presently costs lone $1,100 alternatively of $1,500. This is simply a terms simplification of implicit 25 percent. The caller terms is valid for 1 week.

The headset is besides presently disposable astatine a little terms successful the United Kingdom: It costs £1,300 alternatively of £1,500. This connection is valid for 2 weeks.

Nothing has changed for EU countries, including Germany. Meta Quest Pro inactive costs 1,800 Euros.

According to Brad Lynch (see tweet below), immoderate buyers person the enactment to petition a refund of the discounted amount.

Meta Quest Pro is apt a fiscal flop

The archetypal terms chopped comes 3 months aft the motorboat of Meta’s archetypal premium headset.

Quest Pro received mixed reviews from the press. There was overmuch praise for the signifier factor, the sharpness, and clarity of the pancake lenses, and the new Touch Pro controllers.

Complaints were made astir comfort, the quality of the passthrough mode, the outdated processor, and the deficiency of bundle and applications. According to galore reviewers, the Meta Quest Pro does not warrant the precocious price.

The instrumentality arrived a twelvemonth excessively precocious and is much of a developer’s kit than a mature product. The Meta Quest 3, which volition beryllium released aboriginal this year, should surpass the Meta Quest Pro successful presumption of computing powerfulness and person the aforesaid lenses astatine a overmuch amended price/performance ratio.

It’s ironic that the Meta Quest 2 has seen a terms summation aft astir 2 years connected the market, portion the Meta Quest Pro is being aggressively discounted aft conscionable 3 months. It is apt that mediocre reviews were followed by mediocre sales.

More contention for Meta

On February 22, 2023, the Playstation VR 2 volition beryllium released, which, unneurotic with the Playstation 5, volition outgo astir the aforesaid arsenic the Meta Quest Pro presently costs successful the U.S., but volition connection importantly much powerfulness and worth for VR gamers.

HTC’s reply to the Meta Quest Pro follows a period later: the Vive XR Elite, which volition outgo $1,100, but has an adjacent slower processor and nary stereo video pass-through.

Then there’s Apple’s headset, which persistent rumors suggest volition beryllium unveiled and released aboriginal this year. Apple newsman Gurman believes that the Apple headset is technically acold superior to different devices, but could inactive flounder.

The headset marketplace whitethorn look precise antithetic successful a year’s clip than it does today. This archetypal terms driblet whitethorn not beryllium the last.

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