The Meta Quest Pro will feature the new Snapdragon XR2 Plus VR chip - The Verge

Meta yet showed disconnected its Quest Pro virtual world (VR) headset astatine its Connect lawsuit connected Tuesday, revealing that the high-end instrumentality volition athletics the caller Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 1 chip. Qualcomm says the spot offers 50 percent higher sustained powerfulness and 30 percent amended thermal show than the XR2 Gen 1 spot included successful the Meta Quest 2.

The Quest Pro headset features 12GB of retention and 10 high-res sensors distributed connected some the wrong and extracurricular of the headset, with the XR2 Plus Gen 1 spot helping to alteration look and oculus tracking. This technology’s paired with the Snapdragon 662 spot successful the Quest Touch Pro controllers that Meta and Qualcomm accidental “can self-track done aggregate embedded positional cameras and offers ultra-low latency to the headset.” Combining the capabilities of some the headset and controllers is expected to marque users’ virtual avatars look much lifelike.

Meta won’t beryllium the lone institution that tin usage the Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 1 chip. Last month, Meta announced a multiyear statement with Qualcomm to powerfulness the company’s “future roadmap of Quest devices,” arsenic it relies connected extracurricular assistance from the chipmaker alternatively of custom-designed silicon similar galore caller products from Apple (for its iPhone and Mac lineup) oregon Google (with its caller Pixel phones and Tensor chips). Meta has stake large connected the metaverse and adjacent changed its name to awesome its dedication. The institution reported a $2.8 cardinal loss past 4th portion investing heavy successful Zuckerberg’s vision of a mixed world future.

“This latest procreation of innovative Snapdragon exertion is bringing immense compute gains successful our VR signifier factor, enabling america to powerfulness overmuch richer experiences successful Meta Quest Pro,” Mark Rabkin, the caput of VR astatine Meta’s Reality Labs, said successful a statement. “We judge VR and MR [mixed reality] volition radically alteration however we work, collaborate, and link with each other, and we’re thrilled to beryllium with Qualcomm Technologies connected this journey.”