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TechVRIt’s official: Meta’s new VR headset is coming in OctoberMeta’s high-end VR headset will launch well before Apple’s AR/VR headset or the PSVR 2When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Meta’s high-end VR headset will launch well before Apple’s AR/VR headset or the PSVR 2
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According to Zuckerberg, the new headset will use eye tracking so that you can “kind of have eye contact in virtual reality” and mimic your facial expression; it’ll also enable Zuckerberg to smell your hair and go through your bins when you sleep. I’m lying about that second one. I think.
The new headset may be called the Meta Quest Pro, and it’ll sit above theMeta Quest 2in the Oculus line-up. And that means there’s one pretty obvious bit of bad news for potential buyers.
The Meta Quest Pro won’t be cheap
Earlier this month, Meta upped the price of its Meta Quest 2 from $299 to $399 for the cheapest model. It also put up the price of Quest accessories. That doesn’t bode well for its newer, higher specification headset: while many Oculus fans were hoping that the next headset would be priced similarly to the Quest 2 (at its original price) that looks exceptionally unlikely now. As we’ve previously reported, a leaked internal roadmap indicates a proposed price of $799 (around £640 / AU$1,125) – but that was back in May, long before Meta started upping its headset prices.
The Meta Quest Pro isMeta’s most important VR headset: in addition to gaming, Meta intends to really push the device into business and industry sectors. Part of that is to offset the money Facebook is losing fromApple’s improved privacy protections, which has made it harder for the Facebook app and site to track and store people’s online behaviours.
Business products tend to be less price sensitive than consumer products, but that’s a market where Meta faces competition that doesn’t exist in the consumer sector: bothMicrosoftandGoogleare investing heavily in augmented/mixed reality tech for enterprise customers.
It’ll be interesting to see how the Meta headset fares in those two very different markets: both Apple andSonyare focusing very much on the consumer market, and Microsoft and Google on the enterprise sector. Can Meta be successful in both? We’ll find out in a few weeks.
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