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The Meta quest Pro is dead. Or at least that is what has been reported by tech insider magazine the information. According to them meta let its suppliers know earlier this year that they will not be ordering new components for the quest pro. And consequentially manufacturer goertek will be left only building quest pro headsets with the remaining materials they have left.
This means the quest pro will be discontinued and probably become a one off tech product you’ll see in a museum 30 years from now. To go along with this it is reported that meta also has stopped developing for the second gen quest pro. Meta wants to concentrate more on consumer headsets like the recently announced quest 3.
If I had to guess I would bet the meta pro didn’t sell very well at all, so they dropped the price from 1500 to a thousand in just 3 months on the market and that still probably didn’t create a good enough demand for it and then Apple comes out with its pro higher end Vision Pro that melts the quest pro into a puddle of plastic. Which makes me believe knowing all of this Meta decided to move up their time table for the quest 3 announcement and quietly begin shunning the ole quest pro.
Just looking at the numbers you see the quest 3 will have a higher resolution than the pro, the same pancake lenses as the pro, two rgb cameras instead of one and the depth sensor which we never saw come to fruition with the pro.
The quest pro was a good experiment and definitely pushed vr forward in some ways but the quest 3 definitely has my eye for the future. Did you pick up a quest pro? Let me know in the comments and how do you feel knowing its discontinued?
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth confirms the battery life for the upcoming Quest 3, if you should buy a Quest Pro or the new Quest 3 and is threads coming to vr?
Industrial Designer Marcus Kane working with SadlyIts Bradley has produced new renders for what the Meta Quest 3 more than likely will look like. Their render for the quest pro was very close to the final product so there is definitely some merrit to these photos.
Of course you’ll notice the three slotted cameras on the front of the hmd which on the left and right are projected to house one black and white tracking camera and one rgb camera for improved handtracking and of course color pass through while the middle camera will be a depth sensor for spatial tracking. So like with the quest pro mixed reality seems to be a fairly key feature for the quest 3. Personally I wish Meta would focus more on expanding the VR experience but hey I don’t have the billions like zuck.
Looking at the side of the headset you will notice the projected pancake lenses (like those used in the pro) have made the front casing much slimmer and presumably lighter.
Underneath we see the volume rocker and contact points for a charging dock and on the other side what should be a scroll wheel for IPD adjustment. As well as 2 more tracking cameras on either side.
Working our way up the left side of the headset we see the power button and usb c port which now looks to be part of the headstrap hinge for charging or connecting to your pc. The port design might be a sad but nice homage to the oculus logo, but it could also just be a nice little troll from the creators of these renders. Then we see our familiar speaker grills and on the opposite side there is a headphone jack. (Got this wrong in the video my bad!)
And then of course there’s the classic fabric headstrap probably to save cost in production and if there are functional peices in the hinge our current 3rd party head straps won’t really work.
This 3D render from Alvin Suen does have a white version of the pro controllers but with what zuckerberg has said in the past about the quest 3 price point being under $500 I doubt they will be included in a standard release since the pro controllers alone are $300 but maybe there will be a deluxe version that adds them in.
The quest 3 is rumored to get a new version of the snapdragon XR2 chip basically the XR3 which will bring a GPU performance increase over 2.5x that of the quest 2.
Are you hyped for the quest 3? Do you like these projected aesthetics? Sound off in the comments, I know personally I’m ready for an upgrade that I can actually afford and is worth it but I’ll wait with cautious optimism. Thanks again for watching and I’ll catch you in the next quickie.
t only took 3 months for a new Quest Pro competitor to be announce and it is here in the form of the HTC Vive XR Elite. Here’s the deets.
1920 x 1920 per eye resolution and 3840x1920 combined on its pancake lenses
6 Dof inside out tracking
90 hz refresh
UP TO 110 Degrees for the FOV
Dual microphones for echo cancellation and the speakers are embed in the ear tips, and unfortunately no mention of a headphone jack
The classic snapdragon xr2 is the chipset with 12 gigs of memory and 128 gigs for storage.
The headset holds 4 tracking cameras, a 16 mega pixel RGB camera for color passthrough a depth sensor for increased room scale tracking and object handling, g sensor, gyroscope and a proximity sensor.
You’ll have the joy of stepless IPD ranging from 54-73mm
The 26.6 watt hour battery which is the most interesting piece of this headset in my opinion is hot swappable and will last just around 2 hours.
For connections you’ll have 1 USB 3.2 gen 1 type c for peripherals like the swappable battery and another for a connection to power or a PC.
With the battery the headset weighs in at 625 grams
The vive XR elite will have Bluetooth 5.2 and wifi 6 and 6e it certain countries.
With those wireless connections you will be able to use android app streaming from your phone on to a virtual screen while using a game pad connected to your phone.
The XR elite also has connectors for eye and face tracking modules looking to launch later this year.
And the controllers are what we saw withthe vive focus three which are pretty much your standard 6dof controllers. The headset is compatible with the vive wrist tracker as well
Now lets talk price. The XR elite will be $1100 dollars and if you preorder before february 15th youll get 5 games for free which include Green Hell, Les Mills Body combat, Unplugged Figmin XR and Glimpse. The headset is marked to ship this march
To me the XR elite looks like a decent step into the future of headset designs with a swappable battery and being able to get a face and eye tracking module separately to save cost is a great pro consumer move. And we all know how valuable the ability to have a stepless IPD is. Would I buy one? Honestly I haven’t seen anything thats worth moving on from my quest 2 yet. For me when looking for a new headset it comes down to the cost and how that relates to an upgrade in resolution and field of view. And the XR elite just isnt’ quite enticing enough for me.
Are you excited for the XR elite? Are you gonna jump in that pre-order line? Let me know in the comments below and I’ll catch you in the next quickie!