At this time throughout Meta Join the corporate lastly revealed its high-end Quest Professional headset (previously known as Undertaking Cambria). Priced at $1,500, the headset packs a brand new Snapdragon XR2+ processor together with a bevy of sensors for monitoring the person’s expressions and the world round them for improved passthrough AR capabilities. Alongside new and improved controllers, the corporate additionally revealed the total Quest Professional specs, pre-order date, and launch date.
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Quest Professional was simply introduced and is already out there for pre-order beginning right now in 22 nations. Priced at $1,500 and with a launch date of October twenty fifth, Quest Professional is totally appropriate with Quest 2 content material whereas bringing enhancements that can improve passthrough AR performance and social interactions due to face-tracking capabilities. Let’s check out the on-paper specs:
Quest Professional Specs |
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| Decision | 1800 × 1920 (3.5MP) per-eye, LCD (2x) |
| Refresh Price | 72Hz, 90Hz |
| Lenses | Pancake non-Fresnel |
| Area-of-view (claimed) | 106ºH × 96ºV |
| Optical Changes | Steady IPD, contiguous eye-relief |
| IPD Adjustment Vary | 55–75mm |
| Processor | Snapdragon XR2+ |
| RAM | 12GB |
| Storage | 256GB |
| Connectors | USB-C |
| Weight | 722g |
| Battery Life | 1–2 hours |
| Headset Monitoring | Inside-out (no exterior beacons) |
| Controller Monitoring | Inside-out (headset line-of-sight not wanted) |
| Expression Monitoring | Sure (eyes, face) |
| On-board cameras | 5x exterior, 5x inner |
| Enter | Contact Professional controllers (rechargeable), hand-tracking, voice |
| Audio | In-headstrap audio system, twin 3.5mm aux output |
| Microphone | Sure |
| Go-through view | Sure (colour) |
| MSRP | $1,500 |
Compact Optics & Type-factor
From a decision and field-of-view standpoint, Quest Professional is definitely fairly much like Quest 2, boasting an nearly similar decision of 1800 × 1920 (3.5MP) per-eye, however with a way more compact optical pipeline due to using ‘pancake’ lenses which strikes the headset extra towards a ‘goggle’-like form-factor than the outdated box-on-the-face of its predecessor. At 722g, Quest Professional is heavier than Quest 2, however may very well be extra comfy due to a rear-mounted battery for steadiness and a inflexible headstrap.
And whereas the decision isn’t greater, Meta claims Quest Professional has higher readability due to the headset’s new optics: a 25% enchancment in sharpness on the heart of the field-of-view, and a 50% enchancment throughout the periphery (that means bigger ‘sweet-spot’ of readability). As of now we’re undecided if these claims are merely in regards to the lenses, or in the event that they embrace the show as properly, although we’ve reached out to Meta for readability (pun supposed).
Meta additionally claims Quest Professional features a 500-element native dimming backlight which permits improved distinction as much as 75% in comparison with Quest 2, whereas additionally permitting for a 1.3 instances bigger vary of colour.
New Controllers & Capabilities
Quest Professional’s controllers, which Meta is looking Contact Professional, are related in form however majorly upgraded beneath the hood. Gone are the monitoring rings, that are as a substitute changed by three cameras which permit the controller to carry out its personal inside-out monitoring. Not solely does this make the Contact Professional controllers extra compact, it additionally means they don’t want line-of-sight to the headset as a way to keep their place.
What’s extra, the Contact Professional controllers function improved haptics and new capabilities. The thumb remainder of the controller has been angled and now features a strain sensor which permits for a pure pinch-like gesture. The controllers include stylus suggestions which might be hooked up to the underside, permitting you to flip the controller over to make use of like a bulbous white-board marker. The stylus even has a strain sensor to find out how exhausting or gentle you’re pushing towards a floor.
Regardless of the brand new capabilities, the Contact Professional controllers keep the identical button and set off structure because the Quest 2 controllers for full backwards compatibility with Quest 2 content material. Contact Professional controllers are additionally the primary from Meta which are rechargeable.
Although they’re included with Quest Professional, the Contact Professional controllers are appropriate with Quest 2 and might be bought as an adjunct for $300 beginning later this yr.
Higher Sensing, Inside and Out
Quest Professional doesn’t simply carry improved form-factor and controllers, the headset can also be outfitted with a bevy of sensors for higher integrating the true world into the person’s expertise, and higher integrating the person into the digital world.
Quest Professional packs 5 exterior sensors for passthrough AR capabilities, providing a better decision colour view with improved depth-detection, making the headset higher at understanding the geometry of the room across the person, and permitting it to extra convincingly merge the digital and actual world.
The headset additionally consists of 5 inner sensors for monitoring the person’s eyes and face. Along with utilizing eye-tracking as enter (probably for issues like foveated rendering), the sensors observe way more details about the person’s face, permitting for considerably extra expressive avatars than what’s doable on Quest 2.
Powered Up Processor
Given all the brand new and processing taking place on Quest Professional, it’s factor the headset additionally sees each a processor and RAM improve. Quest Professional makes use of the newly revealed Snapdragon XR2+, an upgraded model of the processor that’s in Quest 2 however with higher cooling, permitting for 50% extra processing energy. The headset additionally doubles the RAM over Quest 2 from 6GB to 12GB. As of now it isn’t clear how a lot of this improve in efficiency can be out there to builders vs. how a lot can be retained for system features like monitoring.
Extra Options, Much less Battery
Although Quest Professional features a heap of enhancements over Quest 2, it comes with a value… and never simply in worth. Meta says customers can count on 1–2 hours of Quest Professional battery life. Fortunately the headset features a charging dock for each the headset and controllers, hopefully guaranteeing it’s able to go at any time when you’re. Meta says the headset can cost to full from the dock in about 2 hours.
Complement Not Alternative, Says Meta
Meta says Quest Professional represents the corporate’s first entry in a line of “high-end” headsets, whereas Quest 2 and its progeny will proceed to co-exist as an entry-level possibility.
Quest Professional is totally appropriate with Quest 2 content material, and whereas the headset is designed with an emphasis on passthrough AR (with an open peripheral view to maintain customers extra grounded of their atmosphere), the headset additionally consists of magnetically attachable peripheral blinders to dial up the immersion for VR. A separate ‘full gentle blocker’, which blocks out much more of the encompassing view is out there as a separate accent.
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Quest Professional is priced at $1,500 and pre-orders can be found right now, with headsets poised to ship beginning on October twenty fifth.