Meta publicizes the $1,499 Quest Professional • TechCrunch

At Meta Join 2022, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the corporate’s newest digital actuality headset, however after years of striving to carry down the cost-of-entry to the VR world, the newly introduced Quest Professional seems to be all about pushing technical boundaries.

The brand new machine shares the Quest identify, however has little in frequent with the extra mass market-geared headset, which Meta will proceed to promote, albeit on the $399 beginning worth which it just lately introduced. With a a lot greater worth level of $1500, Meta is pitching the Quest Professional as a productiveness machine.

The Quest Professional’s headline characteristic is full shade passthrough, which makes use of 4 cameras on the surface of the machine to seize and show the house outdoors of the headset to customers carrying the machine. A black-and-white model of that is out there on the Quest 2. The characteristic will permit for “combined actuality” experiences which overlay digital content material onto the person’s actual world setting.

The brand new “pancake” lenses imply a considerably diminished measurement with a 40% thinner show stack in contrast the the Quest 2. The headset makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ chipset and 1800 × 1920 per-eye shows.

The headset additionally boasts redesigned controllers which lose the massive monitoring rings and as a substitute boast onboard digicam which monitor the controllers relative to the headset.

The battery life is the largest query mark right here, Meta claims the headset will solely final for 1-2 hours which is a tricky promote for “Execs”.

The machine goes up for pre-order right this moment and can ship October 25.

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