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Meta is Planning a Cheaper VR Headset for Release in 2024, Pointing to Possible ‘Quest 3...

Meta is planning to ship a VR headset in 2024 which the company wants to make as accessible as possible to consumers. According to a report by The Verge, Meta’s VP of VR, Mark Rabki, told thousands of employees in a memo that...

Meta Plans Pricier Quest 3 With Features to ‘fire up enthusiasts’

Meta's Quest 3 headset, which the company has confirmed will land this year, is said to be positioned as a slightly pricier headset with features designed to appeal to VR enthusiasts. For Quest 3, due out sometime later this year,...

Meta Has Sold Nearly 20 Million Quest Headsets, But Retention Struggles Remain

Meta has sold nearly 20 million Quest headsets, but the company continues to struggle with keeping customer using VR. According to a report by The Verge, citing an internal Meta presentation held today, the company has sold nearly 20 million Quest...

Meta Affirms Plans for Quest 3 Launch This Year, Despite Layoffs and Focus on “Efficiency”

Despite major layoffs from Meta, the company has affirmed that its next-gen consumer headset, Quest 3, is planned for release this year. While it will adopt some of the features from Quest Pro, not all will make the leap. In...

Meta Reality Labs Earnings Reveal a Less Successful Holiday Season & Highest Operating Costs Yet

Meta today revealed its latest quarterly earnings results, showing that Reality Labs, the company's XR and metaverse arm, had a smaller holiday season than the last, while operating costs have reached their highest levels yet. Today during the company's Q4...

Meta’s Social VR App is Coming to Web & Mobile Soon, Alpha Begins for Members-only Rooms

Horizon Worlds, Meta's social VR platform for Quest users, is expanding with alpha tests of new members-only spaces, allowing creators to manage up to 150 card-carrying members in their private worlds. Meta says it's also gearing up to release...

Meta Will Pay You up to $45,000 to Hack Its VR Headsets

In an effort to harden the security of its hardware products, Meta today announced new guidelines for its Bug Bounty program, specifying the inclusion of both the Quest Pro headset and Touch Pro controllers, and what the company will...

Meta Resumes Quest Sales in Germany Following 2-year Antitrust Case

Over the past two years Meta hasn't sold its VR headsets in Germany due to an ongoing antitrust suit in that country that alleges the forced linkage between its virtual reality products and Facebook was an anticompetitive practice. Now...

Meta Shows How Quest Pro Uses Shared Point Clouds for Local Multiplayer

Meta hasn't rolled out colocation services for the entire Quest platform yet—meaning a pair of Quest 2 headsets can't automatically 'see' each other in the same physical playspace—although that's not entirely true for its latest headset, Quest Pro. Meta published...

Here’s What Meta Says About Camera Privacy on Quest & Quest Pro

With a growing number of cameras adorning the latest VR headsets from Meta, users understandably would like to know how their privacy is treated before inviting a headset into their home. Here's what Meta has to say about what...

Meta Reality Labs Latest Revenue & Operating Cost Figures Aren’t Going to Make Investors Happy

In Meta's most recent quarterly earnings call the company shared the latest revenue figures of Reality Labs, the company's XR division. In the third quarter of the year the division hit new milestones... unfortunately not the kind investors like...

Hands-on: Quest Pro is the Dawn of the Mixed Reality Headset Era

Quest Pro has finally been revealed and we were lucky enough to be among the first to get a hands-on demo with this interesting new standalone VR MR headset. Update (October 25th, 2022): Quest Pro releases today—our review unit arrived...

Quest Pro vs. Quest 2: Beyond the Paper Specs

Quest Pro has finally been revealed, and while it's a much more expensive headset, inevitably people are interested in knowing how it compares to Meta's next best headset, Quest 2. So here we're going to look at Quest Pro...
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Quest Pro Revealed with Snapdragon XR2+, Face-tracking, & More; Ships October 25th for $1,500

Today during Meta Connect the company finally revealed its high-end Quest Pro headset (formerly called Project Cambria). Priced at $1,500, the headset packs a new Snapdragon XR2+ processor along with a bevy of sensors for tracking the user's expressions...

Meta Reveals Touch Pro Controllers for Quest Pro, Also Compatible with Quest 2

Meta's new Quest Pro headset includes Touch Pro controllers which come with a bevy upgrades, and they'll work with Quest 2 as well. Meta says that Quest Pro and Quest 2 will co-exist as high-end and entry-level headset lines, and...
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