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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away (news.yahoo.com)
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Facebook's VR Headset Not Selling, Literally Giving It Away::Last fall, Meta-formerly-Facebook unveiled its Meta Quest Pro, a long-rumored, higher-end follow-up to the company's best-selling Quest 2 VR headset. The sleek device, which initially went on sale for an eye-watering $1,500, has really struggled to catch on since then, just as we predicted at the time. And, as Mixed Reality News reports, Meta is […]

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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I find it so perplexing they released a "premium" version with barely improved resolution.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The main problem with the Pro is that it completely fails at the thing it was primarily marketed for: AR passthrough.

    The cameras are so bad that when you use video passthrough, everything is blurry. It's completely unusable. No one will ever use it for productivity tasks in its current form. Meta should have just focused on making a high end gaming version because they failed at making it usable for anything business related.

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