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?

Quest Pro Controllers Now work with the Quest 2

The self tracking three camera no ring a ling quest pro controllers are now able to work with the quest 2 headset for us pleebs. This ability comes with the new quest 2 firmware update version 47.  But if you want to upgrade it is going to cost you a pretty penny at 300 dollars… Yeah… Thats a hundred dollars less than what the headset is going for right now after the price increase and the same price of the quest 2 when it originally launched. 

Now of course there are some significant upgrades with the quest pro controllers for example there are 3 separate haptic motors, located in the trigger, thumb and body of the controller compared to the OG quest 2 stock controllers which only has one haptic motor. 

The trigger alone gets its own update with a sensor to track finger curling and sliding. There’s also a pressure sensor on the left side of the controller to relay information that creates what meta calls precision grip to know how hard you are holding your controllers. Oh and don't forget the stylus tips that are connected to a pressure sensor at the bottom of the controller to convert your drawings on actual surfaces in the real world into the virtual world.

The $300 pro controller bundle comes with the 2 pro controllers and straps, a charging dock, a power adapter, a charging cable if you don’t want to use the dock, and those forementioned stylus tips. Previously it was announced that the controllers would launch december 6th but as of posting this video they are not available on meta’s site. You can however buy each controller individually for $150 on their own with out any charging accessories, so I guess that means the bundle is a deal?

Are you going to make the switch? Personally I’m holding out for the Quest 3 which hopefully will launch next year with some of these improvements to the controllers at a lower price. I just can’t see the benefit for me personally right now in dropping the cash for these controllers or the meta quest pro itself. Let me know your thoughts in the comments and I’ll catch you in the next quickie.