Meta unveils Quest Pro mixed-reality headset - The National

Meta Platforms connected Tuesday released its Quest Pro virtual and mixed-reality headset, the company's latest instrumentality geared towards a higher-end market.

The headset, unveiled astatine Meta's Connect Conference, is priced astatine $1,500 and volition statesman shipping connected October 25.

The motorboat is portion of Meta's program to broaden its audience. The institution has sold astir 15 cardinal Quest 2 units — the Quest Pro's predecessor — aft it launched successful 2020.

“It’s work-focused,” Meta main enforcement Mark Zuckerberg told reporters past month.

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“The perfect customers for this [are] going to beryllium either radical who conscionable privation the highest-end VR instrumentality — truthful enthusiasts, prosumer benignant folks — oregon radical who are trying to get enactment done.”

The caller headset includes face- and eye-tracking to marque conversations successful the metaverse much personal.

It besides has what Meta calls “full-colour mixed reality”, done which users wearing the Quest Pro volition beryllium capable to enactment successful their virtual abstraction portion being successful their carnal workspace astatine the aforesaid time.

And the ultra-thin lenses connected the headset marque for sleeker headwear arsenic good arsenic showing sharper visuals.

Meta's developments of its headsets are cardinal to its plans for the metaverse, wherever Mr Zuckerberg imagines a caller net wherever radical tin enactment and play.

As portion of its foray into virtual offices, Meta announced it was teaming up with Microsoft to connection Teams and Microsoft 365 software.

Microsoft main enforcement Satya Nadella appeared successful a video with Mr Zuckerberg to beforehand the Quest Pro.

Bloomberg contributed to this report

Updated: October 11, 2022, 9:06 PM