Meta has canceled the high-end headset it deliberate to launch in 2027, The Data stories.
The report comes from The Data’s Wayne Ma and Sylvia Varnham O’Regan, citing two Meta staff because the sources. Ma has precisely reported Meta’s Quest headset and sensible glasses plans prematurely a number of instances previously.
In keeping with the report, Mark Zuckerberg and his CTO Andrew Bosworth advised staff to cease work on the headset, codenamed La Jolla, earlier this week at a product assessment assembly. La Jolla was reportedly set to make use of excessive decision micro-OLED shows, like Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. However Meta apparently wished to maintain the headset’s value beneath $1000, and the corporate decided that would not be attainable with micro-OLED by 2027.
A leaked Meta {hardware} roadmap from 2023 revealed La Jolla would even have stored the unique Quest Professional’s rear battery design and have Codec Avatars, Meta’s long-running analysis and improvement mission aiming to revolutionize distant communication by attaining really convincing photorealistic avatars pushed in real-time by headsets with face monitoring sensors.
Meta plans to make use of key applied sciences from La Jolla, together with its “show and eye-tracking options”, in unspecified “different future units”, immediately’s report claims.
Shortly after The Data’s report was revealed, Bosworth made a publish on Threads noting that Meta has prototypes in improvement always, and that “Choices like this occur on a regular basis”.
Quest 4 Reportedly Coming In 2026, Then Quest Professional 2 In 2027
Meta plans to launch Quest 4 in two variants in 2026 after which a Quest Professional 2 in 2027, The Data stories.
Meta’s reluctance to cost one other headset above $1000 doubtless comes from the failure of the unique Quest Professional, which it needed to reduce from $1500 to $1000 simply 4 months after launch following mixed-at-best critiques and low gross sales.
The Data beforehand reported that Meta plans two Quest 4 fashions for 2026, a regular mannequin and a premium mannequin codenamed Pismo Low and Pismo Excessive.
Within the nearer time period, a plethora of proof suggests Meta’s subsequent headset will probably be Quest 3S, a extra inexpensive model of Quest 3 coming later this yr with a thicker design, inferior lenses, and decrease decision. Meaning Quest 3 ought to stay Meta’s highest-end providing for years to come back, although headsets from different corporations operating its Horizon OS might function improved specs and options lengthy earlier than Quest 4.
Threads publish from Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth seemingly referring to The Data’s reporting added shortly after publication.
