Meta Quest Pro 2 to Be Built by LG as Apple Vision Pro Competitor: Report

Meta Quest Pro 2 will likely be developed as a successor to the corporate’s first premium XR headset in partnership with South Korean tech conglomerate, in accordance to a report. The wearable machine is claimed to be extra highly effective — and dearer — than its predecessor, and can compete with the Apple Vision Pro and different superior combined actuality headsets which can be mentioned to be within the works. The second-generation headset from Meta will reportedly use a consumer interface (UI) primarily based on LG’s webOS as an alternative of the corporate’s Quest UI.

A Korea Economic Daily report (in Korean) citing an business official that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and LG Electronics CEO Cho Joo-wan will meet on Wednesday forward of the businesses’ plan to use LG’s {hardware} and software program expertise — together with the Facebook father or mother agency’s metaverse expertise — to launch the “highest-performing XR headset” in Q1 2025, “surpassing” Apple’s Vision Pro headset.

News of the purported LG-Meta alliance first surfaced in September 2023, with a report stating the machine could be priced at $2,000 (roughly Rs. 1.65 lakh), or practically double the worth of the first-generation Quest Pro headset, on the time — the latter was initially launched at $1,499 (roughly Rs. 1,24 lakh) in 2022.

However, LG’s {hardware} will not be the one expertise from the agency to make its method to the purported headset. The report states that Meta is contemplating integrating LG’s webOS software program instead of Quest UI — this might come in useful if the corporate needs to compete with visionOS on the Apple Vision Pro or Samsung’s purported ‘Infinte’ XR headset.

As a part of the purported alliance, Meta’s AI expertise may also make its method to a few of LG’s merchandise. The report states that Zuckerberg’s first go to to South Korean in a decade will likely be to talk about XR headsets, and that the businesses are anticipated to announce their plans to workforce up to manufacture Meta’s subsequent premium XR headsets.