Meta unveils $1,500 Quest Pro virtual reality headset - UPI News

Meta unveils its caller Quest Pro virtual world headset astatine a terms of $1,500. Photo courtesy of Meta

Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Meta main enforcement serviceman Mark Zuckerberg showed disconnected his company's newest virtual world headset connected Tuesday astatine the Meta Connect 2022 conference, arsenic helium revealed its $1,500 terms tag.

The Meta Quest Pro, which contains caller technologies to nutrient amended graphics for good substance and virtual world details, costs $1,100 much than the company's existing Quest 2 headset.

"The VR gyration is underway. We've designed an all-new headset packed with precocious tech and geared for productivity, originative enactment and collaboration," Meta Quest tweeted Tuesday arsenic it announced Meta Quest Pro's Oct. 25 merchandise date.

Quest produces Meta's enactment of virtual world headsets, including the Meta Quest 2, which contains the Snapdragon XR2 chipset made by Qualcomm.

Last month, Meta, the genitor institution of Facebook, announced it had joined forces with tech elephantine Qualcomm to make customized chipsets for its virtual world products.

The companies said they would "collaborate connected a caller epoch of spatial computing" with the assistance of Qualcomm's "extended reality" exertion diagnostic called Snapdragon, which produces 3D immersive experiences done the usage of a futuristic headset.

The devices are said to person the effect of wholly closing disconnected the extracurricular satellite by merging carnal and integer imagery.

Last year, Facebook rebranded its genitor sanction to Meta to stress the company's caller aboriginal absorption toward the meta verse, a word that describes an augmented integer world wherever radical volition enactment and unrecorded alongside their beingness successful the existent world.

During Tuesday's reveal, Meta touted the Quest Pro's improved interaction controllers that incorporate embedded sensors to let for amended manus tracking. New lenses volition besides amended speechmaking experiences.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella adjacent teamed up with Zuckerberg astatine Meta's online lawsuit to sermon bringing the company's apps, similar the Team's chat app and Microsoft's Xbox unreality gaming service, into virtual reality.

"You volition beryllium capable to play 2D games with your Xbox controller projected connected a monolithic surface connected Quest," Nadella said. "It's aboriginal days, but we're excited for what's to come."