Meta Quest Pro: What it is, how it works? All you need to know about this VR headset

Meta Quest Pro: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the launch a new VR (virtual reality) headset Meta Quest Pro that is packed with features like full-colour mixed reality and is priced at $1,500.  The Meta Quest Pro includes the headset, Meta Quest Touch Pro controllers, stylus tips, partial light blockers, and a charging dock. 

What is Meta Quest Pro? 

According to the company, Meta Quest Pro is the high-end mixed reality headset launched by Meta company and it is packed with innovative features like high-res sensors for robust mixed reality experiences, crisp LCD displays for sharp visuals, a completely new and sleeker design, plus eye tracking and Natural Facial Expressions to help your avatar reflect you more naturally in VR.

How Meta Quest Pro works? 

The Meta Quest Pro is designed for professional users. Meta Quest Pro is powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ platform, which is optimized for VR to run at 50 per cent more power than Meta Quest 2 with better thermal dissipation, resulting in significantly better performance. 

Each Meta Quest Pro comes with 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and 10 high-res sensors (five inside the headset and five outside) that help enhance a variety of immersive experiences.

VR is all about the visuals, and Meta Quest Pro features several big improvements over Meta Quest 2. Meta Quest Pro’s entirely new optical stack replaces the Fresnel lenses in Meta Quest 2 with thin pancake optics that fold light several times over, reducing the depth of the optical module by 40 per cent while providing clear and sharp visuals. The two LCD displays use local dimming and quantum dot technology to provide richer and more vivid colors.

It is powered by specialized backlight hardware and accompanying software algorithms and can control more than 500 individual LED blocks independently, giving the displays 75 per cnet  more contrast.

Meta Quest Pro also has 37 per cent more pixels per inch and 10 per cent greater pixels per degree than Meta Quest 2, making everything from reading text to playing games look better.

Additionally, there’s a 2 per cent improvement in full-field visual sharpness in the center view, 50% improvement in the peripheral region, and 1.3X larger color gamut than Meta Quest 2.

Meta Quest Pro has an all-new sensor architecture with high-res outward-facing cameras that capture 4X the pixels as Meta Quest 2’s external cameras, unlocking a high-definition, full-color mixed reality experience. With Meta Quest Pro, you can view your physical environment in full color.

Meta Quest Pro features stereoscopic mixed reality Passthrough, which combines multiple sensor views to create a natural view of the world in 3D..

Mixed reality on Meta Quest Pro lets you combine your physical environment with virtual elements in a realistic way, leading to enhanced social presence, productivity, and collaboration. 

Instead of being confined to the dimensions of your desk, you can set up a big virtual workspace with multiple screens spread all around you while still using your physical keyboard and mouse in productivity apps like Immersed.  Or if you’re a furniture designer, you can create detailed 3D models with other people in real time using Arkio and Gravity Sketch, and then see how they look in your actual living room.