Meta Quest Pro revealed at Meta Connect 2022
The newest in the Meta Quest line of VR headsets looks to be the most advanced one yet.
Mark Zuckerberg was personally on-hand during Tuesday's Meta Connect 2022 presentaion to unveil the next big step forward in VR. The Meta Quest line of VR headsets is leveling up with the new Meta Quest Pro.
The Meta Quest Pro is being touted as the Facebook parent company's most advanced VR headset to date. According to a report from The Verge, it will run on the Snapdragon XR2-Plus processor, which is a jump up from the Meta Quest 2's XR2. It will also feature upgraded eye tracking and a higher-resolution 1800 x 1920 resolution video feed, along with 12GB of memory for better visuals. New options will grant users the ability to determine how much light is blocked out from their peripheral vision.
Here's how Meta describes it on the Oculus website:
Meta Quest Pro has an all-new sensor architecture with high-res outward-facing cameras that capture 4X the pixels as Meta Quest 2’s external cameras, unlocking a high-definition, full-color mixed reality experience. On Meta Quest 2, Passthrough lets you see the world outside your device in black and white. But with Meta Quest Pro, you can view your physical environment in full color. This helps developers create more robust mixed reality experiences using our Presence Platform suite of tools. Meta Quest Pro features stereoscopic mixed reality Passthrough, which combines multiple sensor views to create a natural view of the world in 3D. Compared to monoscopic passthrough solutions, this results in a higher quality and more comfortable experience with better depth perception and fewer visual distortions for both close-up and room-scale mixed reality scenarios.
Ergonomically, the newer headset promises to be one of the most comfortable to wear. The shape has been drastically adjusted and features a thinner lens and a more balanced form factor. It's marginally heavier than the Meta Quest 2, but the design shifts the weight so that it is less noticeable.
Source: Meta
The Touch controllers have been reimagined for the new Meta Quest Pro. They'll utilize new cameras that are placed along the top of the peripherals. More interestingly, they'll run on built-in rechargeable batteries and no longer utilize disposable AAs. The new Touch controllers can be used with both the Meta Quest Pro and the current Meta Quest 2 and will sell for $299 USD.
While the Quest Pro is the most advanced of Meta's VR headsets to date, it's also going to be sold at an advanced price. It's going to sell for a whopping $1,499 USD with only a 256GB version available. It's set to release on October 25. Keep it on Shacknews as we continue to follow everything coming out of Meta Connect 2022.
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replyOzzie Mejia posted a new article, Meta Quest Pro revealed at Meta Connect 2022
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Norm at Tested tried it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNYpD212HQA
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$1,499 O_o
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serious wtf
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If the pitch is actually that this is a business class device then so be it but that wasn't really the expectation they set coming into things. They'd talked about returning to high end VR and a proper Rift follow up which naturally leads people to expect a consumer/prosumer price point like $500-800
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I’m pretty sure they were pitching this as an expensive business class device from the early days.
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Yup, they've indicated for a while now that this would be a prosumer device. We'll be getting the Quest 3 next year which won't have the facial tracking but will have color passthrough and a depth sensor, and according to a road map that got leaked the next consumer version after that will have most of the features from the Pro.
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And they didn't even go with OLED at that price. Backlit LED panels.
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I wonder if black smear has been fixed on VR OLEDs. Both the PSVR1 and Samsung HMD have it pretty bad.
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Quest 1 is LCD AFAIK
And yeah, I don't notice black smear on the LG WOLED so maybe it's possible on smaller screens-
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I see. I wonder if the black level elevation was noticeable. I would imagine you don't have to feed too much voltage to keep the pixels awake
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nice tech but 90hz max and heavier than quest2 is tough. i thought itd be much lighter
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Meta claims the battery lasts between 1 and 2 hours depending on the content. That’s notably lower than other standalone headsets.
https://uploadvr.com/quest-pro-specs-features-details/
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Gonna be highly productive in VR one hour at a time
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Mark Zuckerberg changed into three different grey t-shirts in that hour.
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must be all the sensors taking up battery? damn. i suppose if youre doing desk work its fine but that is a quite small life
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Heavier than Quest 2 also, super weird they went this direction. I agree they need a high-end headset to push the industry forward, but not sure if this is it.
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To me it's like they nailed the feature set for what a new headset should have but failed when it came to designing the actual headset around those features. Unless it is priced significantly higher Reality One will eat their lunch on B2B sales due to how underpowered the Quest Pro is, and a potential US release of the Pico 4 would massively eat into their consumer market. I'm just not sure who exactly they are targeting this at, because it doesn't seem to meet the needs of either commercial or consumer users.
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That said, the facial tracking on the new avatars looked really impressive when they had them come on stage. Avatar Zuck somehow looked more human than the real one!
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What if that was the real version, and the other was an avatar?
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I wouldn't be surprised.
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lol this seems like more of a prototype. Weird product.
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