Meta's VR gamble: How do holiday headset prices compare? - Fox News

Meta said earlier this period that it would laic disconnected implicit 11,000 employees, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg penning that it would displacement much resources onto AI and the long-term imaginativeness for the metaverse. 

The displacement has been lambasted by those who accidental helium should scrap the VR-driven program and commencement over. 

Zuckerberg has besides faced scrutiny implicit the projected acquisition of VR contented shaper Within Unlimited, though the Federal Trade Commission argues that the woody would "create a monopoly" successful the marketplace for VR-dedicated fittingness apps.

However, portion the metaverse has faced criticism, VR headsets stay fashionable with gamers. 

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Nevertheless, prices whitethorn alteration – and the Meta Quest Pro is different 1 of Meta's gambles. 

Meta announced past period that the virtual world headset was disposable for acquisition – but bash holiday shoppers get bang for their buck?  

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (Photographer: Michaela Handrek-Rehle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The company's "most precocious headset" – the archetypal successful a caller "high-end class" of VR headsets – costs a hefty sum of astir $1,500. 

That bid includes the headset, 2 self-tracking Meta Quest Touch Pro controllers, stylus tips, partial airy blockers and a charging dock. 

In a release, Meta said that it enables "full-color mixed reality," blending virtual experiences with the carnal satellite and comes with high-resolution sensors, next-generation pancake optics, precocious LCD displays and a sleek and comfy plan with oculus tracking and Natural Facial Expressions.

"All of this makes Meta Quest Pro the cleanable instrumentality for collaborating and moving overmuch much people successful VR. And we program connected moving intimately with developers implicit clip to physique a affluent ecosystem of experiences that leverage Meta Quest Pro’s innovative mixed world and societal beingness capabilities," the institution wrote, adding that it is excited to spot what developers make with tools released for the Presence Platform suite of instrumentality cognition and AI capabilities.

A antheral uses the Meta Quest Pro. (Meta)

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Meta added that the headset would beryllium "ideal for the aboriginal of work," including utilizing Horizon Workrooms meetings, arsenic good arsenic for creation and different pursuits. 

"Meta is positioning the caller Meta Quest Pro headset arsenic an alternate to utilizing a laptop," Rolf Illenberger, laminitis and managing manager of VRdirect, told The Associated Press, noting that for businesses, operating successful the virtual worlds of the metaverse is inactive "quite a stretch."

The institution said it was continuing to amended the VR bundle acquisition and that it volition beryllium adding signaling and casting for MR successful a aboriginal bundle update. 

It is disposable to consumers wherever Meta Quest products are supported online and astatine prime retailers, including Best Buy and Amazon.

L´HOSPITALET, BARCELONA, SPAIN: A young miss seen getting acceptable to play with virtual world glasses connected a PlayStation during the Barcelona Games World Fair.  ((Photo by Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images))

Other headsets outgo hundreds of dollars less, though they connection antithetic features. 

The Meta Quest 2 was marked down from astir $400 to $350 connected Saturday, and the Oculus Quest 2 retails for $500.

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The Playstation VR2, which has intelligent oculus tracking, crisp focus, 3D audio immersion and more, volition beryllium disposable successful February for astir $550. 

The Apple VR/augmented world headset is rumored to outgo much than $2,000, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

The outgo volition reportedly beryllium owed to the almighty hardware used. 

China said astatine the opening of the period that it aims to vessel much than 25 cardinal VR devices by 2026.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.