The Meta Quest Pro VR and Mixed Reality headset has been unveiled

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the Meta Quest Pro VR and mixed reality headset. The big reveal came during Meta’s annual Connect conference and the headphones will be available for purchase on October 25 for $ 1,500 and will offer users a way to interact with virtual creations overlaid with a color view of the physical world around them. .

This thing takes VR headsets to a new level with its amazing upgrades. This includes outward facing cameras that capture a 3D livestream of the physical environment around the person wearing it, “allowing for mixed reality novelties such as the ability to hang a virtual painting on a real world wall or bounce a virtual ball. on a real table. “

Quest Pro is also lighter and thinner than previously released VR sets, with thin pancake lenses and a repositioned battery located on the back of the headset, distributing its weight more evenly while reducing the overall footprint.

For fully immersive VR, “Meta has added tracking sensors to Quest Pro that can replicate users’ eye movements and facial expressions, creating the feeling that avatars are making eye contact,” which is really cool!

Quest Pro’s motion controllers have also undergone a major redesign, and each is equipped with multiple cameras that can track their movement in 3D space on their own, just like the viewer does.

The company is still working on a mixed reality experience for its Horizon Workrooms app that would make it look like the avatar of a person present in a real-world conference room with other users, whom it is calling Magic Rooms.

Quest Pro is presented as a productivity device, aimed at designers, architects and other creative professionals. The company has also made available virtual versions of Microsoft business products such as Word, Outlook, and Teams.

This is pretty cool! Someday I will have one because I think they are the future of integration with Web3. But I don’t have $ 1500 to buy one right now.