Meta is discontinuing the Quest Pro two years after launching it

Meta is discontinuing the Quest Pro, its high-end VR headset launched successful 2022 that we said “isn’t precise good.” The institution plans to merchantability its remaining Quest Pro headsets done the extremity of the twelvemonth oregon “until they’re gone, whichever comes first,” according to a blog post.

Meta’s station didn’t specify wherefore it’s moving connected from the Quest Pro truthful soon, but it’s wide the headset wasn’t good received. My workfellow Adi Robertson rated the headset a 4, uncovering that the instrumentality was dense and uncomfortable and that its professional-focused Workrooms acquisition was “basically a substance of luck.”

At launch, the Quest Pro was besides jaw-droppingly costly astatine $1,499. Meta permanently dropped the terms to $999 just months aft launch, but that was inactive a batch of money, particularly erstwhile the arguably amended Quest 3 launched conscionable a fewer months aboriginal for $499.

Meta is besides discontinuing the Quest 2, but that 1 makes much sense; the Quest 2 is present four years old, and Meta has a large replacement for it successful the just-announced Quest 3S.