Meta Quest Pro VR Leak Claims It Was Left Behind in a Hotel Room

Another set of leaks for the Meta Quest Pro hit over the weekend, exhibiting off a wildly redesigned headset. Even leaked movies can’t get me too enthusiastic about “the metaverse,” however what’s with all these tech corporations leaving prototypes round the place others can discover them?

The gaming streamer Ramiro Cardenas, who goes by Zectriuz Gaming, shared a video to Facebook over the weekend of what’s supposedly a Meta Quest Pro he later commented was present in one of many lodge rooms the place he works. The streamer claimed he discovered a number of such units left in bins, and within the video takes the time to “ooh” and ogle on the supposed subsequent gen VR headset whereas providing little or no that viewers can really determine.

The gadget proven within the video has a modern, charcoal black design, which is a far cry from the primary Meta Quest and its shiny white plastic end. It’s labeled each because the Meta Quest Pro and as an “engineering sample” not meant on the market. There appears to be some detachable gentle blockers on the highest and backside of the headset and a dial that could possibly be used to regulate the gap between the lenses and the customers’ eyes. The head straps additionally appear rather more inflexible than these on the present Meta Quest 2. The leaked units additionally apparently lack a high strap, so the headset would possible have to be fairly gentle or tight on the face to maintain it from slipping.

The controllers themselves are a bit smaller than in previous iterations—even toy-like in look—and appear to have nixed the big loops that go round customers’ arms. An earlier leak from Sunday, additionally found on Facebook, reveals off the Quest Pro field and offers a greater trace of the headset and controllers’ general slimmed-down design. It additionally seems to look very very like what Meta’s previously hinted at with its Project Cambria headset advertising.

Gizmodo reached out to Meta for remark and to presumably confirm the authenticity of the leaks, however we didn’t instantly hear again. The gadget within the video and the leaked field picture do seem like comparable, but when this leak is actual (and we have now our doubts), then the field does include a couple of additional gentle blockers from the get-go, so long as the engineering pattern maintains the identical packaging because the retail model.

Of course, this type of leak has “grain of salt” written throughout it. The video, like many “accidentally left in a room” tales, has the identical vibes as “my uncle works for Nintendo.” Cardenas has additionally since claimed that the gadget was returned to its authentic proprietor, which means we by no means really acquired to see him take the gadget for a spin and even flip the factor on. More crucially, he can’t reply questions on it. The field additionally appears equivalent to the unique Quest packaging, which provides a bit to the unbelievability of the entire scenario.

There are a complete host of necessary issues to be taught concerning the new Quest aside from how the gadget appears. We nonetheless don’t understand how weighty it’s, what sort of specs we’re , and—in all probability most necessary for the fledgling VR market—how a lot it can value. Meta not too long ago boosted the value of each the 128GB and 256GB Quest 2 fashions by $100.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg not too long ago mentioned the corporate could be exhibiting off its new headset at its Connect convention occurring on Oct. 11. Still, there are additional rumors we could possibly be getting a number of headset fashions over the following few years, some far dearer than others. Meta not too long ago struck a deal with Qualcomm to have its upcoming headsets powered by Snapdragon chipsets.

The problem Meta’s reached in making an attempt to nook the VR market is that it’s been getting as many fairly extravagant units into as many customers’ arms as doable, all earlier than making a reputable use-case for Zuckerberg’s idea of the Metaverse. Even if the know-how can get low-cost and complicated sufficient to really energy the corporate’s nebulous ideas of a shared digital area like Meta’s Horizon Worlds, it additionally has to shake more and more unfavorable perceptions of simply how dangerous the entire thing appears and the way terrible the folks inhabiting digital areas might be.