Forget Oculus Quest 3 — Oculus Quest Pro will be coming first

Forget Oculus Quest 3 — Oculus Quest Pro will be coming offset

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The Oculus Quest ii has been a great success for Facebook, only don't expect a follow-up anytime shortly. In fact. nosotros're more than likely to go an Oculus Quest Pro before an Oculus Quest 3.

That'southward according to Oculus CTO John Carmack and and Vice President Andrew Bosworth during a Twitter Q&A (via Upload VR) final week. While follow-upwardly headsets accept patently been discussed, the Oculus Quest 2 is hither to stay "for a long while".

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"In that location isn't a Quest 3, at that place's only the Quest 2," Bosworth said during the discussion, "Merely I did hint at an AMA earlier this year about Quest Pro considering we do take a lot of things in development where we want to innovate new functionality to the headset along the kinds that people theorize that nosotros would want to innovate, and that'due south a little ways off all the same."

Bosworth went on to confirm that the hypothetical Oculus Quest Pro headset wouldn't be arriving this year. He said that the Quest ii is "the best bet for the almost accessible fashion to get into VR," and then information technology's sticking around for the immediate future.

We have to agree. The Oculus Quest two tops our list of the best VR headsets thanks to its all-in-on design, which means y'all don't need an expensive PC to run information technology. Only it does also have optional PC and full-room capabilities, a massive range of uniform games and an affordable $299 cost tag.

Keeping the Quest 2 around is a skilful matter

While some VR enthusiasts may be upset to hear that the Oculus Quest Pro isn't coming presently, information technology'south not a bad thing. For one, information technology means the headset y'all have is going to exist supported for some time, and you won't be forced to upgrade.

Plus. for those who are on the fence about picking up the Quest 2, you've got safety in the knowledge that you're not dropping $300 on a headset right before a new one arrives.

Equally Oculus has already shown, it's withal willing to invest in its older products. While the Oculus Quest 2 just got its first proper exclusive in the course of the Resident Evil four VR remake, there are still plenty of new games that are uniform with the first generation Oculus Quest.

In fact, Carmack pointed out, "if a programmer is doing something to, you know, make money there'due south still a pretty substantial market there in Quest i users." Bosworth added that there is withal an incentive for developers to back up the original Quest, and that it isn't too difficult to do and then.

So while Oculus is willing to permit developers with "really loftier-end apps" exclusively target the Quest 2, they still recommend supporting both headsets.

And then there may not be an upgraded model coming for a while, it's not like at that place's any shortage of ways you tin apply the Oculus Quest 2, and the original Oculus Quest.

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