The Meta Quest Pro Is Getting a Limited $400 Price Drop - CNET

It's been little than 3 months since the Meta Quest Pro archetypal went connected sale, and it's already getting a $400 discount.

The caller price, $1,100, isn't permanent: It's lone for 1 week successful the US, and 2 weeks successful the UK (where the terms is dropping to £1,300). But it's a notable simplification for a headset that was wide criticized for its precocious terms erstwhile it debuted past fall.

The Meta Quest Pro is simply a step-up design from the two-year-old Quest 2 headset, but the Quest 2 lone costs $400, portion the Pro, adjacent astatine its on-sale price, costs astir 3 times arsenic much.

The Pro has immoderate advantages implicit the Quest 2: It has a higher-res display, fits much easy implicit wider glasses, has redesigned controllers that tin way question with their ain built-in cameras, adds colour passthrough cameras and improved mixed reality, and has oculus and look tracking. But its bulkier plan and sometimes shorter artillery beingness mean it isn't ever a wide betterment for everyone, it runs VR apps fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic the Quest 2, and its built-in processor isn't truly overmuch different.

The Quest Pro promotion is disposable connected Meta's store and astatine third-party stores, and it's a limited-time promotion for now. But it whitethorn beryllium a motion that Meta's already considering much terms cuts for its hardware arsenic contention screeches astir the corner.

Sony's PlayStation VR2 arrives successful precocious February, and truthful does HTC's Vive XR Elite, different standalone pro-level VR headset with a little $1,099 price. Apple's rumored VR headset is expected successful 2023, and could beryllium announced anytime this year. Meta's ain Quest 3 is expected aboriginal successful the year, and could see respective Quest Pro features astatine a overmuch little price.

It's going to beryllium a engaged twelvemonth for VR hardware. While the Quest Pro is getting a important terms driblet for now, you astir apt privation to hold it retired and spot what other happens, oregon instrumentality with the Quest 2 you whitethorn already have.