At Meta’s Connect Conference aimed at VR and AR developers, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, today officially announced the company’s latest and flagship virtual reality or VR headset, dubbed the Meta Quest Pro.
The newly announced VR headset Meta Quest Pro has been priced at a whopping $1,500, and the company will start shipping the device on 25th October.
This is by far the most expensive VR headset from Meta as it is priced $1,100 more than its previous offering, the Meta Quest 2. The company is justifying the higher pricing through the technologies used in the product. It’s clear that the company is ditching its customer-friendly pricing and looking to make Quest Pro a business-ready product.
The Meta Quest Pro is powered by an advanced mobile Snapdragon chip, which is developed with Qualcomm and aims to offer better production of more advanced graphics. It also comes with improved touch controllers with embedded sensors for better hand tracking, as well as new lenses for a better reading experience.
There are also some mixed reality features, blending the real world with the virtual world, which the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerburg is claiming to be an important feature as it takes a step towards the creation of the metaverse.
Meta is also partnering with other companies for applications optimized for the VR headset, and one of them is Microsoft with its work-collaboration apps for the Quest VR devices. Some of the Microsoft apps that will be available for the VR devices include Teams, Microsoft 365 suite, and the Xbox Cloud Gaming service.
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