Meta has officially discontinued Quest Pro, the company’s first mixed reality headset. Meta announced back in September that it was winding down Quest 2 and Quest Pro sales. At the time, the company said remaining stock would be sold through the end of the year or until they ran out, whichever came first. Now, in …
  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Kinda surprised tbh. It was clearly DOA for gaming, but if anything, I think the Apple Vision Pro demonstrated that there is a potential market for a high end VR headset as a monitor replacement if you could get it small and light enough.

    I’m guessing that focusing on just the Quest 3 / 3S chipsets let them focus and optimize everything way more overall though.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      No VR headset will ever replace monitors. At the end of the day they require something to be pressed up to your face, with a screen that gets hot after extended use. Ask people to wear paper masks and see how it goes, then compare it to a monitor strapped to your face.

    • arudesaladEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I think the desktop feature was added to the quest 3 so not much point for it now. Especially because they didn’t reach businesses like they hoped

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yeah, but the Quest 3 still isn’t really great for remote desktop. It’s a little too low res, and the headset itself is too heavy to wear for that long, though it certainly does feel like the devs are using them to dogfood, given how much they keep improving the remote desktop features.