Meta have introduced their much-teased new VR headset, the Meta Quest Pro. It guarantees a swankier digital actuality expertise over the Meta Quest 2, with increased decision shows, a lighter headset, and new Quest Touch Pro controllers included. It’s additionally launching imminently, on October twenty fifth, with pre-orders open now.

The draw back: it will value you £1500/$1500 versus the Quest 2’s £400, with Meta saying the headset is designed for enterprise and never gaming.

Meta – previously Facebook – revealed the headset as we speak throughout the keynote at Meta Connect 2022, a one-day digital occasion centered on augmented and digital actuality, and “the metaverse”, Mark Zuckerberg’s chosen title for Second Life.

The Quest Pro’s tech specs apparently embrace a decision that is 4x increased than the Quest 2. In actual phrases, an official weblog submit says which means 37% extra pixels per inch and 10% extra pixels per diploma than its VR predecessor.

Meta say that new lenses within the headset will produce higher distinction in photographs, whereas the brand new Quest Pro Touch controllers will provide a fuller vary of movement through cameras included in every controller.

While the value is a stumbling block and Meta say that the headset is designed for enterprise use, the Quest Pro is totally backwards suitable with all Meta Quest 2 video games and apps. There would not appear to be any cause why you could not use it to play Beat Saber, in different phrases, which looks as if a greater use of a VR headset than utilizing it for doing calls over Microsoft Teams or no matter.

Meanwhile, a job posting from Valve suggests they have plans for future VR merchandise. They’re in search of a software program engineer who may help “prototype, ship, and assist shopper gaming merchandise leveraging visual-inertial monitoring”, together with head-mounted shows and controllers.