Meta Unveils New High-End 'Meta Quest Pro' VR Headset [Video] - iClarified

Meta has officially unveiled a caller high-end 'Meta Quest Pro' virtual world headset. The instrumentality was antecedently known by the codename 'Project Cambria'.

Meta Quest Pro is the archetypal successful a caller enactment of precocious headsets built to grow the possibilities of virtual and mixed reality. Its pancake lenses fold airy implicit respective times, reducing the size of the headset portion showing sharper visuals. A new, curved artillery connected the backmost helps marque Meta Quest Pro a much balanced and ergonomic headset overall.

Meta Quest Pro is the first-ever instrumentality powered by the caller Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+platform, which is optimized for VR to tally astatine 50% much powerfulness than Meta Quest 2 with amended thermal dissipation, resulting successful importantly amended performance. Each Meta Quest Pro comes with 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and 10 high-res sensors (five wrong the headset and 5 outside) that assistance heighten a assortment of immersive experiences.

Here's a look astatine immoderate of the cardinal features highlighted by Meta...

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Next-Generation Optics
VR is each astir the visuals, and Meta Quest Pro features respective large improvements implicit Meta Quest 2. Meta Quest Pro’s wholly caller optical stack replaces the Fresnel lenses successful Meta Quest 2 with bladed pancake optics that fold airy respective times over, reducing the extent of the optical module by 40% portion providing wide and crisp visuals. The 2 LCD displays usage section dimming and quantum dot exertion to supply richer and much vivid colors. Our customized section dimming tech, powered by specialized backlight hardware and accompanying bundle algorithms, tin power much than 500 idiosyncratic LED blocks independently, giving the displays 75% much contrast.

Meta Quest Pro besides has 37% much pixels per inch and 10% greater pixels per grade than Meta Quest 2, making everything from speechmaking substance to playing games look better. Additionally, there’s a 25% betterment successful full-field ocular sharpness successful the halfway view, 50% betterment successful the peripheral region, and 1.3X larger colour gamut than Meta Quest 2.

Full-Color Mixed Reality
Meta Quest Pro has an all-new sensor architecture with high-res outward-facing cameras that seizure 4X the pixels arsenic Meta Quest 2’s outer cameras, unlocking a high-definition, full-color mixed world experience. On Meta Quest 2, Passthrough lets you spot the satellite extracurricular your instrumentality successful achromatic and white. But with Meta Quest Pro, you tin presumption your carnal situation successful afloat color. This helps developers make much robust mixed world experiences utilizing our Presence Platform suite of tools. Meta Quest Pro features stereoscopic mixed world Passthrough, which combines aggregate sensor views to make a earthy presumption of the satellite successful 3D. Compared to monoscopic passthrough solutions, this results successful a higher prime and much comfy acquisition with amended extent cognition and less ocular distortions for some close-up and room-scale mixed world scenarios.

Mixed world connected Meta Quest Pro lets you harvester your carnal situation with virtual elements successful a realistic way, starring to enhanced societal presence, productivity, and collaboration. Instead of being confined to the dimensions of your desk, you tin acceptable up a large virtual workspace with aggregate screens dispersed each astir you portion inactive utilizing your carnal keyboard and rodent successful productivity apps similar Immersed. Or if you’re a furnishings designer, you tin make elaborate 3D models with different radical successful existent clip utilizing Arkio and Gravity Sketch, and past spot however they look successful your existent surviving room. And with Presence Platform’s Scene knowing and Shared Spatial Anchors, developers tin physique virtual objects that interact with your carnal space—even successful co-located experiences wherever 2 oregon much radical tin play oregon enactment unneurotic successful VR portion successful the aforesaid carnal space. Check retired our Presence Platform update blog post to larn more.

A Sleek New Design
Thanks to its pancake lenses and the curved-cell artillery that sits astatine the backmost of the headset, Meta Quest Pro is the slimmest and astir balanced VR instrumentality we’ve ever made. It feels large erstwhile you enactment it on, letting you easy absorption connected next-level VR experiences alternatively of the headset fit. Meta Quest Pro features a continuous lens spacing accommodation mechanism, accommodating inter-pupillary distances (IPDs) betwixt 55mm and 75mm (a larger scope than Meta Quest 2, which accommodates IPDs betwixt 58mm and 72mm). The headset besides lets you set the lens region from your eyes with a caller oculus alleviation dial to optimize fit, look tracking, and viewing experience. This enables a much divers scope of radical to fine-tune the headset to their liking.

Meta Quest Pro is designed with an unfastened periphery, letting you usage your peripheral imaginativeness to enactment contiguous successful your situation portion you multitask betwixt the existent and virtual worlds. If you privation to beryllium much immersed portion utilizing Meta Quest Pro, you tin drawback connected the magnetic partial airy blockers that are included successful the box. For a much accepted VR experience, you besides person the enactment to acquisition afloat airy blocker attachments erstwhile they merchandise aboriginal this year.

Self-Tracking Controllers
You might’ve noticed that Meta Quest Pro’s controllers look a spot antithetic from the ones that vessel with Meta Quest 2—these are our marque caller Meta Quest Touch Pro controllers! They travel with a large caller feature: Three built-in sensors successful each controller way their presumption successful 3D abstraction autarkic of the headset, giving you a afloat 360-degree scope of motion. This ensures unchangeable tracking crossed each of your VR apps.

The controllers person been re-engineered to beryllium much ergonomic and balanced, making them consciousness similar earthy extensions of your hands. They besides travel with upgraded haptics utilizing our caller TruTouch Haptics strategy to supply a wider and much precise scope of feedback, arsenic good arsenic rechargeable batteries. With the charging dock and 45W USB-C powerfulness adapter that are included erstwhile you bargain Meta Quest Pro, you tin support some your headset and controllers charged and acceptable to go.

But you don’t person to ain a Meta Quest Pro to instrumentality vantage of these slayer caller controllers, due to the fact that Touch Pro controllers tin besides beryllium utilized with Meta Quest 2. You tin acquisition a standalone brace for $299.99 USD starting aboriginal this year.

More Natural Facial Expressions for Avatars
Whether you’re moving successful a virtual bureau successful Meta Horizon Workrooms oregon hanging retired with friends and household you can’t different spot successful person, it’s important to person avatars that not lone look similar you, but tin determination and explicit themselves similar you would successful existent life. With oculus tracking and Natural Facial Expressions, Meta Quest Pro brings america a measurement person to showing your authentic aforesaid successful the metaverse. You’ll beryllium capable to marque lasting memories successful multiplayer apps similar Wooorld, which makes it imaginable to instrumentality virtual trips crossed the globe, exploring 3D maps and 360° images with friends and family.

We built Meta Quest Pro’s caller societal beingness features with privateness successful mind. Both oculus tracking and Natural Facial Expressions are disconnected by default. If you take to crook them on, images of your eyes and look enactment connected the headset, are deleted aft processing, and are ne'er shared with Meta oregon third-party apps. You tin larn much astir Meta Quest Pro’s privateness controls here.

Social experiences connected Meta Quest Pro volition lone get amended implicit clip arsenic much developers physique apps that enactment these features with Presence Platform’s Movement SDK, which we’re besides launching today.
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Pricing and Availability
Meta Quest Pro volition beryllium released connected October 25. You tin pre-order 1 astatine the nexus beneath for $1499.99.

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