We now have dates for Meta’s forthcoming Quest headsets

While the study didn’t uncover overmuch astir hardware, this is the archetypal clip we’ve heard astir circumstantial timelines for the devices. The Quest 4 volition purportedly person a modular and premium version, referred to internally arsenic Pismo Low and Pismo High. Meanwhile, a higher-end mentation codenamed La Jolla is acceptable for 2027 and is meant to vie with the Apple Vision Pro. Unmentioned successful the study is Ventura, a much affordable headset that The Verge previously reported whitethorn travel retired aboriginal this year.

Aside from Quest headsets, Meta is besides expected to motorboat a brace of AR glasses with a bonafide display. However, The Information study notes that there’s immoderate uncertainty surrounding those glasses. Unlike the existent Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, this brace volition reportedly measurement a hefty 70g and features a “bulky design” owed to the display. That chunkiness, the study notes, means they apt won’t transportation the Ray-Ban branding. Ray-Ban’s genitor institution EssilorLuxottica purportedly wasn’t a fan.

If true, the contented of bulky plan wouldn’t beryllium surprising. Most AR glasses with displays person struggled with the aforesaid problem. Currently, it’s a situation to miniaturize displays to a size that’s comfortably wearable, portion besides maintaining minimally viable artillery beingness and power. As a result, astir companies that person attempted AR glasses person near benignant by the wayside — which itself has been a large obstruction to user adoption.