Quest Pro will be launched this month, opening the "Professional Consumer/Industrial-grade Metah product line".
Currently Meta still calls Quest Pro Project Cambria - this is the codename given when it was announced on Connect 2021. However, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the name "Quest Pro" in an interview, and it later appeared in the Meta Quest iOS app. Last month, a hotel staff found an engineering sample with retail packaging, further confirming its official name as “Meta Quest Pro.”
The following is all about Quest Pro, Meta has confirmed, everything that has been leaked, and a well-known supply chain analyst’s description of resolution and screen type.
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· Color perspective
Quest Pro's flagship new feature is the color perspective of mixed reality.
Quest 2 mainly looks through its four tracking cameras, its perspective mode was originally only used for Guardian settings and was black and white because of the low resolution of the camera.
Meta refers to the perspective function of Quest Pro "HD". Zuckerberg said its sensor has three times the resolution of the Quest 2.
· Pancake lens
Like the PICO 4 series, Quest Pro also uses Pancake lenses.
Currently, Quest 2, Vive Focus 3, Valve Index, and the upcoming PSVR 2 and other PCVR headsets all use refractive lenses (Fresnel or aspherical).
Pancake lenses can support smaller panels at closer distances, so the mask is thinner and lighter, and the overall device will be greatly reduced.
However, the disadvantage of Pancake lenses is that their optical efficiency is low, so the display needs to be brighter to achieve the same output brightness, which requires a larger and heavier battery.
· Eye Tracking and Face Tracking
Quest Pro will have eye tracking and face tracking functions, so your real-time gaze and facial expressions will be mapped to your virtual avatar.
It is not clear at this time whether eye tracking supports Foveated Rendering. Attention rendering is a new graphic computing technology that greatly reduces the computational complexity by reducing the resolution of images around the gaze, thereby freeing up more performance. Additional performance can be used to improve graphics fidelity or higher perceived rendering resolution.
· Depth sensor
Quest Pro includes an infrared projector for active depth sensing, and its resolution is one-third that of ordinary cameras.
Meta has not revealed its specific purpose, but Zuckerberg described it as "a more optimized hand" so he hopes the Quest Pro has more reliable hand tracking.
guess from foreign media UploadVR: To use mixed reality in Quest 2, you need to manually mark the walls and furniture, but it's a difficult process and the result is not perfect. Quest Pro can automatically scan rooms, whether at release or via software updates, which has been implemented on existing devices with depth sensors, such as HoloLens 2, iPhone Pro and iPad Pro.
· Quest application
Meta has been confirmed that Quest Pro will use the same Meta Quest store and run the same apps and games as Quest 2. If you are an existing Quest owner, you don't need to repurchase the content.
· Expensive price
Meta spokesperson once made it clear to UploadVR via email that the price of its next VR headset will be "significantly" higher than $800. This product uses a lot of high-tech, and the focus is obviously not whether ordinary consumers can afford it.
In comparison, the HTC Vive Focus 3 with the official eye tracking and face tracking plug-in is priced at $1,647.
· Target audience
Zuckerberg said in the first quarter of 2022 earnings call that this headset "focuses more on work use cases and ultimately replaces your laptop ".
A leaked internal memo said it "opened our professional consumer/industrial mixed reality product line." This sentence seems to confirm that it will also be sold to individuals, not just businesses.
· Release month
Zuckberg said in the show "The Joe Rogan Experience" hosted by comedian Joe Rogan that the company's next headset will be released in October, almost certainly referring to Quest Pro.
and Meta's annual AR/VR conference Connect is scheduled to be held on October 11. What is leaking
Last year, just a few days before Meta announced Project Cambria, YouTube blogger Basti564 found a tutorial video in the Quest firmware. These videos showcase its design, controller and charging pad.
By November, a few weeks after rendering the trailer video, Basti discovered the textures of Project Cambria and its controllers and made them into 3D models.
Last month, a hotel staff member discovered an engineering sample with retail packaging. He recorded his unboxing video and posted the video and pictures on Facebook.
These pictures and videos confirm early leaks, including product names.
· Name
At present, Meta still calls Quest Pro Project Cambria, which is the codename given when it was announced on Connect 2021. The product name is visible on the packaging.
However, Zuckerberg used the name "Quest Pro" in an interview, which also appeared in the code of the Meta Quest iOS app. It is worth mentioning that this headset has even been found to access WebXR content.
· Design
Basti's tutorials discovered before Project Cambria announced that we saw the design of the headset for the first time, and the 3D model he made provides a more detailed look.
In April this year, YouTube blogger Bradley Lynch claimed that he had seen real photos of Quest Pro production models and collaborated with 3D modeler Marcus Kane to produce detailed renderings. Rendering shows that the headset has five external cameras—three on the front and one on each side.
And the camera configuration in these rendered images matches the real headset seen by the hotel staff when they were unboxing.
· Memory and storage
SadlyItsBradley, Reggy04 and Samulia found from Quest 2 import log "SEACLIFFBCM" that the description contains "256GB / 12GB" - Seacliff is the code name for the Quest Pro headset.
Given that the Quest 2 comes in 128GB and 256GB models, it's almost certain that the Quest Pro's 256GB storage and 12GB of memory.
In addition, Quest 2 has 6GB of memory, so 12GB can achieve true multitasking.
· Automatic tracking controller
Basti those tutorial videos also show controllers with onboard cameras instead of tracking rings that may be used for independent inward-outward tracking.
Meta's original trailer video also showed the controller without a tracking ring, but it was too dark to see the camera. However, the unboxing video of the hotel staff clearly shows the controller, as well as the location of the three cameras.
· Charging base
Basti One of the videos found in the controller shows the charging base with a Pogo pin spring pin for wireless charging.
The third set of Pogo pin spring pins indicates that the headset is also charged from this base.The headset and controller can be used at any time you need it, and constant access to power means that game and app updates can be downloaded in the background.
· Resolution and screen type
html In April, well-known supply chain analyst Mingchi Kuo said that it will be equipped with dual 2160×2160 Mini LED displays.
Mini-LED is not a brand new display technology, just like its name, it is just an advanced form of LCD backlighting. Traditional small LCD displays use a single backlight across the entire display, while Mini-LEDs use hundreds or even thousands of mini LED beads to provide a level of contrast close to OLEDs—although some halos are often sacrificed. Mini LED has appeared in the high-end PCVR headset Varjo Aero, and Pimax plans to use it in its standalone headset.
Quest 2 uses a single LCD display with a single eye resolution of 1832×1920. A single monitor headset cannot use all pixels because there is an unused blank between the lenses, and because the Quest 2 has lens separation adjustments, the Meta has to leave more unused space. This means that the actual resolution provided to each eye is significantly lower than 1832×1920.
If Kuo’s information is correct, Quest Pro should provide at least 35% of pixels per eye and provide better contrast.
For more information, please pay attention to the upcoming Meta Connect 2022, which will be held at 1 pm Eastern Standard Time on October 11 (1 AM Beijing time on October 12). At that time, 87870.com will report, so please stay tuned.
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