While dropping rumors that Facebook might be working on a new, more powerful VR headset, Facebook Vice President Andrew Bosworth made it clear that the company has no plans to launch a Quest Pro or Quest 3 headphones this year.
The topic of a new Facebook headset came up recently during a podcast (recorded by UploadVR here) hosted by Facebook Vice President Reality Labs Andrew Bosworth and Oculus CEO John Carmack, where Bosworth admitted that while he had previously mentioned the possibility of a more sophisticated Quest Pro headset, he wanted to make it clear that no such device will arrive soon.
When asked about future Facebook headphones, Bosworth said, “People also ask about Quest 3, which doesn’t exist yet, and everyone who hears us that it’s reporter there’s no Quest 3, there’s only one Quest 2, but earlier this year I unveiled an AMA about Quest Pro because we have a lot of things under development where we want to introduce new features to headphones along with the types that people theorize we’d like to introduce, and that’s a bit far “It still won’t happen this year.”
Bosworth then ended the podcast by saying, “For those who are curious, Quest 2 will be on the market for a while, for a long time, and it will be, you know, I think the best bet for the most accessible way to enter virtual reality and have a fantastic experience ”.
Speculation about Facebook’s plans for future virtual reality hardware has been renewed hrecently spurred on by the launch of the Resident Evil 4 VR remake, which does not run on the original Quest and is the first new title created exclusively for Oculus Quest 2. This caused a small panic among Quest 2 owners regarding the long-term Facebook support of their current benchmark VR headsets, which originally arrived in the fall of 2020.
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So far, both Facebook and Oculus developers have been pretty slow to start getting support for the original search, with Bosworth claiming that there are more than a million people who still use the latest generation headphones. Facebook. However, with Facebook designated both the original Quest and the Rift S as products that have reached the end of their useful life, it is clear that the Quest 2 is the main handset of Facebook, both for mobile virtual reality experiences and for computers.
Fortunately-with Oculus recently announced new features for Quest 2, including support for native VR wireless video streaming (called Oculus Air Link), improved productivity features, and faster 120Hz refresh rates—there seems to be a lot of room to continue improving Facebook’s current virtual reality glasses without the need for new devices.
And when it comes to what is still a relatively new branch of technology, the updated components and the most powerful hardware are always nice, though there’s something to be said about focusing on the stability of your platform, which is what Facebook seems to be doing with Quest 2.