Meta has reportedly canceled its try at making a higher-end blended actuality headset to compete with the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Ever since Apple launched the Imaginative and prescient Professional in February 2024, rumors have swirled round Meta’s try and compete with the high-dollar blended actuality headset.
The headset was rumored to be the Meta Quest Professional 2, however now in accordance with a report from The Info the challenge has been canceled solely.
The publication says that two Meta workers instructed them concerning the information and claimed that it was too expensive to have the ability to promote effectively.
Work on Meta’s Imaginative and prescient Professional competitor reportedly began in November 2023 and was scheduled for launch in 2027. It was going to comprise Micro LED screens – the identical as Apple’s headset and the explanation behind the alleged cancelation.
Meta reportedly wished to maintain the price of the machine beneath $1,000, which is an enormous $2,500 decrease than the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s MSRP.
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Work on the Meta Quest 4 is reportedly nonetheless taking place, nonetheless, and the present focused launch window is someday in 2026.
Not a ton is thought about that headset, however that might not be the one headset Meta is engaged on. The Quest 3 Lite, a less expensive model of its present flagship machine, has been rumored through the years as effectively.
It’s rumored to have decrease decision screens, decrease storage than Quest 3’s most of 512gb, and a lowered worth as effectively.
The Quest 3 begins at $499, which is an enormous soar from its $299 predecessor. VR followers have flocked to the Quest 2 because of this, largely as a consequence of Meta dropping the value to simply $199 again in April 2024.
Gaming isn’t the one purpose to get a VR headset, both. On high of its plethora of high-quality video games, the Meta Quest 3 is the right exercise companion for these trying to get lively.
