Why Meta’s CTO is bullish on VR
by Casey Newton from The Verge - All Posts on (#64N16)
The front of the Meta Quest Pro headset. | Photo by Alex Heath / The Verge One mild sunny day last week, I made my first visit to Meta's campus in Burlingame, CA, to experience the company's latest big swing in its efforts to build a metaverse. The centerpiece of the day, as well as Tuesday morning's keynote address at the Connect conference, is the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 standalone mixed reality headset, shipping October 25th, that the company hopes will spur a new wave of adoption by professionals and businesses.
Yesterday I wrote about what Meta had to prove at Connect: that the metaverse is not only happening, but happening now, and that Meta is better positioned to capture the upside of the coming platform shift than anyone else. Indeed, that was the core theme of Tuesday's keynote, as CEO Mark...