As rumored over the previous few months, Meta’s upcoming high-end VR headset Challenge Cambria appears to be named Quest Professional. And an obvious unboxing video has leaked too, which provides us a very good have a look at the corporate’s subsequent VR headset and controllers.
We noticed the outside field of Meta Quest Professional pop up on Reddit over the weekend, however a brand new video appears to have fully blown the quilt off Meta’s subsequent VR headset. Right here’s a have a look at the field under for reference:
The video was obtained by Spanish language PC gaming streamer Zectariuz Gaming and posted to their Fb, exhibiting off the headset’s exterior and controllers.
The pictures above, appended with the ‘Engineering Pattern’ sticker, are additionally seen on the field within the video, suggesting that both ultimate or very near-final variations of the {hardware} aren’t simply within the arms of trusted builders.
Right here’s a breakdown of what we see within the video in the event you haven’t caught our earlier protection. Meta Quest Professional is a high-end VR headset able to AR interactions because of its coloration passthrough cameras, that are positioned on the entrance a part of the headset.
You’ll additionally in all probability discover the headset is remarkably extra compact than Meta Quest 2, which is as a result of inclusion of pancake lenses. These, just like the identify suggests, are flatter than conventional Fresnel lenses, lowering the house between the show and lens for a slimmer, much less front-heavy profile. The headset additionally contains eye and facial-tracking, though we don’t actually get a ok have a look at the within of the headset to study something new right here.
The controllers are additionally a totally new design for the corporate, as you’ll see they’re lacking the standard infrared optical monitoring rings seen on Rift, Rift S, Quest and Quest 2. The slimmer controller is studded with its personal inside-out sensors that in concept ought to permit for extra sturdy monitoring since they don’t should be throughout the line of sight of the headset itself.
There’s nonetheless no particular phrase on specs or value, though that final bit of information is formally slated to be “considerably increased” than $800, solidly placing Quest Professional within the enterprise and prosumer house.
There are additionally rumors (nonetheless unconfirmed by Meta) on Quest Professional’s specs. The information under is courtesy Bradley Lynch of SadlyItsBradely, nevertheless since they aren’t official please take with a grain of salt:
- 2,160 x 2,160 MiniLED Backlit LCD Panels (2)
- Customized Pancake Lenses (2)
- 16MP Shade Digital camera for Shade Passthrough
- Eye + Face Monitoring (IR Digital camera primarily based)
- Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 1 SoC
- 12GB LPDDR5 RAM
- 256GB SSD
- WiFi 6E Help
- ~5000 mAh battery
There’s some decidedly extra stable data on launch for Meta’s subsequent headset although. Talking on the Joe Rogan Expertise podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg let it slip that its “subsequent machine [is] popping out in October,” which suggests a Quest Professional will comply with within the footsteps of Quest 2 by being launch through the firm’s Join developer convention, which takes place on October eleventh, 2022.
