Meta Could Partner With LG To Create An Apple Vision Pro Rival: What We Know – News18

Meta, with its Quest line, has been manufacturing VR headsets for a while now. The ‘Quest,’ which began with the acquisition of Oculus, represents an ongoing effort to double down on its Metaverse ambitions. Now, it seems that Meta may collaborate with LG to develop a brand new headset that might straight compete with Apple’s 2024-bound Vision Pro ‘spatial computer’ headset.

This improvement comes via the South Korean newspaper Maeil Business Newspaper through UploadVR. The publication means that if the collaboration involves fruition, we may count on to see an LG-made headset with LG shows, LG batteries, and different LG Innotek parts. The report claims that the primary high-end product from this partnership is predicted in 2025 and should value upwards of $2,000.

The machine, which can or is probably not named the ‘Meta Quest 4 Pro,’ will probably be supplied alongside a spread of different headsets accessible at varied value factors. One such headset may very well be the $499 Meta Quest 3.

Notably, this isn’t the primary time that Meta has partnered with an organization with experience in {hardware}. In the previous, Meta had collaborated with Xiaomi to create the Oculus Go. So, this partnership is probably not a far-fetched thought. However, it’s necessary to notice that this stays a rumor for now and ought to be taken with a grain of salt till Meta or LG affirm something.

Regarding the Apple Vision Pro, Meta is taken into account a direct rival with its Quest line. During the reveal of the Vision Pro at WWDC 2023 earlier this 12 months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Apple’s Vision Pro doesn’t introduce something new that which Meta had not already explored, and that there aren’t any “kind of magical solutions that they have to any of the constraints on laws of physics.”

Apple claims that the Vision Pro is a ‘spatial computer’ designed to mix the digital with the bodily world whereas remaining conscious of the consumer’s environment. The Apple Vision Pro is predicted to be accessible subsequent 12 months in 2024 and can retail for $3,499 (round Rs 2,88,000) within the United States.