At Meta Connect 2022, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Meta Quest Pro — and it’s a very different product from the Quest 2. Priced at $1,499, this is unambiguously an enterprise and prosumer device. The Quest Pro is thinner, lighter, and features pancake lenses for a sharper, more comfortable visual experience. Most importantly, it introduces full-colour passthrough — a genuine step into mixed reality.
The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 chip provides a significant performance boost, and the new inward-facing cameras enable expressive face and eye tracking — opening the door for far more natural avatar interactions in the metaverse. The redesigned Touch Pro controllers ditch the tracking rings for onboard cameras, making them sleeker and more precise.
Battery life is the headline compromise: around two hours of mixed use. But for enterprise use cases — 3D design, virtual collaboration, training simulations — that may be sufficient when paired with the charging dock.
At $1,499, the Quest Pro isn’t for everyone. But it signals clearly where Meta’s premium XR vision is heading. This is the first real glimpse of what mixed reality can look like in daily professional life.
Source: Meta Newsroom