Meta announces Quest Pro, a $1,499 “mixed reality” device coming Oct. 25
The Meta Quest Pro. [credit: Meta ]
Just under one year after rebranding as Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook announced the Quest Pro, a $1,499 "mixed reality" headset that will be shipping on October 25.
Part of that "mixed reality" pivot comes in the Quest Pro's more open lens design, which lets users see the physical world around them in their peripheral vision. That should allow users to perform simple tasks in the real world without taking off the headset, such as "jot[ting] down a note, grab[bing] something on your desk, or just be[ing] aware of what's going on around you," Meta said. Users who want a more immersive experience, though, can clip on magnetic "light blockers" to the side of the headset for a "partial blocked" take on the outside world (optional accessories will allow for "fully immersed" experiences if a user wants to completely cut off their surroundings, Meta said.
Quest Pro also sports new, full-color passthrough cameras that capture four times the resolution of those on the Quest 2, Meta said. Combined with a depth system that can detect the location of objects in your environment, which allows for a mixed-reality layering of virtual items on a stereoscopic display of your real-world surroundings, complete with new "anchoring" technology that locks those virtual items in place, Meta said.